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Caregivers’ burden experienced by relatives living with a person suffering from schizophrenia

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dc.contributor.authorCabral, Lídia
dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Maria João
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Manuela
dc.contributor.authorGonçalves, Amadeu
dc.contributor.authorDuarte, João
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-10T08:31:56Z
dc.date.available2016-11-10T08:31:56Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractAbstract: Schizophrenia is a complex chronic disease that turns the affected person into a dependent and disorganized patient. This pathology is responsible for a major burden on the family members who are in charge of taking care of that person. Analyze to what extant can socio-demographic, clinical and environmental variables interfere with the burden felt by family members who live with someone suffering from schizophrenia; to analyze the relationship between a depressive mood state and the burden on the family members who live with a person suffering from schizophrenia were our objectives. As a methodology, quantitative and non-experimental, cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational study. The data collection was done through socio-demographic questionnaires; Vaz Serra and Pio Abreu’s Portuguese version of Beck Depression Inventory (1973); Zarit Burden Interview adapted by Sequeira (2007). 95 informal caregivers taking care of schizophrenic patients were assessed. Participants are mainly female (66%), aged 40 or over (79%) and 36 % are the patients’ mothers. Gender, age and existing family ties variables interfered significantly with the impact caused on the caregiver’s burden. There was a statistically significant correlation between the depressive symptomatology and the burden experienced by the family caregivers. Family/ informal caregiver experience several difficulties when they have to go through a daily process of taking care of a family member suffering from schizophrenia. This situation may cause exhaustion, conflicts, emotional suffering and even depressive symptomatology. This burden of care grows stronger as the patients are older, when they are male and when there are no families ties binding patient and caregiver. These variables must be taken into account in these caregivers’ service plans.pt_PT
dc.identifier.citationCabral, L., Almeida, M. J., Ferreira, M., Gonçalves, A., & Duarte, J. (2016). Caregivers’ burden experienced by relatives living with a person suffering from schizophrenia. In 2nd icH&Hpsy International Conference on Health and Health Psychology (Ed. lit.), The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS 13, 128-138. Porto: Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto. Acedido em http://www.futureacademy.org.uk/files/images/upload/11ichandhpsy2016.pdfpt_PT
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2016.07.02.11pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2357-1330
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/3401
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherFuture Academypt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.futureacademy.org.uk/files/images/upload/11ichandhpsy2016.pdfpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectSchizophreniapt_PT
dc.subjectfamilypt_PT
dc.subjectinformal caregiverpt_PT
dc.titleCaregivers’ burden experienced by relatives living with a person suffering from schizophreniapt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage138pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage128pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleThe European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBSpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume13pt_PT
rcaap.rightsclosedAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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