Coping and Adaptation Patterns among Chinese, Indian, and Malay Families Caring for a Mentally Ill Relative

Bentelspacher, Carl E.; Chitran, Shireen; Rahman, Marziyana binte Abdul

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“…The participants reported that they drew both physical resources and psychological support from their families. This confirms the literature on family studies stating that in times of crisis, the family, as a functioning unit, also goes through the stress-and-coping process (Bentelspacher et al, 1994;McCubbin & Patterson, 1982;Patterson, 1998Patterson, , 2002. However, some families fare better than others do.…”

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“…From their reports, a pattern of Singaporeans coping with uncontrollable traumas and natural disasters emerged; that is, they coped as families and not as isolated individuals, and the family functioned as a unit of response. This led us to the hypothesis that in this collectivistic Asian country (Hofstede, 1980), where people come from a long history of having family-oriented cultures (Bentelspacher, Chitran, & Rahman, 1994), individuals, when faced with major life threats, cope in a collectivistic way, whereby the family functions as a team or an integrated unit in the stress-and-coping process. The construct of family resilience (Walsh, 1998a(Walsh, , 2003Patterson, 2002) was introduced as a family characteristic that enables families to withstand and rebound from the disruptive challenges they face.…”

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confidence: 99%

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In Search of Family Resilience

Chang¹,

Neo²,

Fung³

2015

PSYCH

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This study explores the construct of family resilience defined as a family variable that enables the family to survive major life challenges and as a coping resource that enables the individual to deal with traumas and to thrive from the experience. Nurses who were working with infected patients in a major epidemic in Singapore provided the sample and the context to search for family resilience. Two studies are reported in this article: Study 1 consisted of an in-depth interview with 30 nurses and some of their family members to identify the factors within their families that they perceived to have enabled them to cope with the stress and difficulties. Based on the results from Study 1, a family resilience (FR) scale was constructed. Using the FR scale, Study 2 employed a structured survey to identify the internal organization and the psychometric properties of FR. Factor analysis of the results identified five meaningful factors. The FR scale was found to have excellent psychometric properties. Path analyses were conducted to test whether family resilience is a spurious factor and whether it is a construct distinct and independent from individual resilience (IR). It was found that FR predicts individual well-being with both direct and indirect effect mediated by individual resilience, supporting the nonspurious nature of FR and the potential reciprocal causal effects between FR and IR.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Search of Family Resilience

Chang¹,

Neo²,

Fung³

2015

PSYCH

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“…As the above quotes indicate, for many non‐Chinese informants, migrant Chinese values were often sharply contrasted with the apparent and much lauded ‘tolerance’ of Dayak (indigenous inhabitants of Borneo) and Malay families, this being a commonly held assumption in the hospital, supported to some extent in other research studies of Chinese, Malay and Indian families (Bentelspacher et al . 1994, pp.…”

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Asylum blues: staff attitudes towards psychiatric nursing in Sarawak, East Malaysia

Crabtree

2003

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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This paper draws upon findings from an ethnographic study of psychiatric service users in a psychiatric institution in Sarawak, East Malaysia. Findings focus primarily on the accounts of nursing staff in relation to attitudes towards psychiatric work and patients. These indicate that despite a rhetoric of decentralized services, a custodial 'asylum' model continues to influence the care of patients at many levels. Negative professional attitudes towards patients lead to issues of both moral and physical containment. However, an associated attitude of stigma and prejudice towards mental illness impacts upon how attractive a career in psychiatric nursing is perceived to be by respondents, subject to gender differentials.

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“…Higher subjective levels of burden and personal stress have been reported by high EE relatives compared with low EE relatives 19. For many carers, frustration, anger, loneliness and despair are common 20–22. Levene et al 3 reported that the Perceived Family Burden Scale, an instrument for measuring patient behaviour and family burden, demonstrated predictive power for early symptomatic relapse in schizophrenia.…”

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Perception of burden by caregivers of patients with schizophrenia

Srivastava

2005

Indian J Psychiatry

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Background:There is a dearth of studies assessing the burden of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia and illness-related variables such as age, sex, duration of illness, domicile, martial status, education, employment and previous hospitalization.Aim:The study was conducted to measure the perception of burden by caregivers of patients with schizophrenia and its correlation with nine factors on the Burden Assessment Schedule (BAS) related to spouse, physical and mental health, external support, caregiver's routines, support to patient, responsibility-taking, other relatives, patient's behaviour and caregiver's strategy.Methods:Using BAS, we assessed the burden in a sample of caregivers of 34 patients with schizophrenia taken from the OPD of the Institute of Mental Health and Hospital, Agra.Results:A low positive correlation was found between urban domicile and support of the patient; of domicile Agra and effect on other relations; and domicile Agra and effect on the caregiver's routine. There was a low positive correlation between age less than 30 years and the physical and mental health of the caregiver, and with taking responsibility. The t test for population correlation was significant up to 5% probability level (p<0.05) for correlation between urban domicile and support of the patient; between domicile Agra and effect on other relations; between domicile Agra and the effect on the caregiver's routine; between age less than 30 years and the physical and mental health of the caregiver; and between age less than 30 years and taking responsibility.Conclusion:Further studies in this field are required including one with a non-linear correlation analytic design.

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Coping and Adaptation Patterns among Chinese, Indian, and Malay Families Caring for a Mentally Ill Relative

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

In Search of Family Resilience

In Search of Family Resilience

Asylum blues: staff attitudes towards psychiatric nursing in Sarawak, East Malaysia

Perception of burden by caregivers of patients with schizophrenia

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