2000
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.177.39.s21
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Caregiving in schizophrenia: development, internal consistency and reliability of the Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire – European Version

Abstract: BackgroundIn international research on the consequences of psychiatric illnesses for relatives of patients, the need for an internationally standardised measure has been identified.AimsTo test the internal consistency and the test-retest reliability of the Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (IEQ) in five European countries.MethodThe IEQ was administered twice to a sample of relatives or friends of patients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of schizophrenia. Reliability was tested using Cronbach's α, intraclass correl… Show more

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“…The results are similar to some other studies (23,25,33). This can attributed to worse psychiatric disorder prognosis in males than in females and greater resistance to treatment in male patients (34). In summary, the findings imply high burden in the caregivers in this Iranian samples, thus, it is necessary to promote the families' knowledge and awareness to reduce long-term care giving burden.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 80%
“…The results are similar to some other studies (23,25,33). This can attributed to worse psychiatric disorder prognosis in males than in females and greater resistance to treatment in male patients (34). In summary, the findings imply high burden in the caregivers in this Iranian samples, thus, it is necessary to promote the families' knowledge and awareness to reduce long-term care giving burden.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 80%
“…To check whether the manipulation of psychological involvement was successful, an adaptation of two different questionnaires developed in earlier studies (Mittal, 1989;van Wijngaarden et al, 2000) was made for evaluating how strong the associated immersion was experienced by the participants during the game. Participants were asked to answer five immersion questions about the degree of importance, concern, involvement, care, and responsibleness towards the decision taken about making a tasty drink.…”
Section: Other Measuresmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The burden experienced by the relatives caused by the patient's symptoms was assessed with the subscales "tension" and "worrying" of the Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (IEQ). The IEQ (Schene et al 1998;van Wijngaarden et al 2000) assesses different areas of caregiving. The two aforementioned subscales represent interpersonal problems that are correlated with the severity of the mental disorder.…”
Section: Primary Appraisalmentioning
confidence: 99%