The care burden and coping levels of chronic psychiatric patients' caregivers

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2018

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Wiley

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Özet

PurposeThis descriptive study was conducted in order to determine care burden of caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients and their levels of coping with stress. MethodsThe study was conducted with 134 caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients. The following data collection tools were used: the personal information form, the ZBI and SCI. The study participants were selected from the population by using an improbable random sampling method. ResultsThe average age of the caregivers was 49.9513.68 and the majority were married and primary school graduates. ConclusionThis study determined that caregivers experienced a high level of burden. However, while the deal with their difficulties of providing effective care was found to have more coping methods they use.

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Bipolar Disorder, Family Caregivers, Mental-Health, Perceived Burden, Schizophrenia, Individuals, Relatives, Illness, Support, Styles

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Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

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Q3

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Q2

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54

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2

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