Coping Styles, Stress Tolerance, and Wellbeing and their Correlations in the Women Spouses of the Mentally Ill

Cherkil, Sandhya

doi:10.4103/0253-7176.78505

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“…As risk levels increase, so resilience levels need to increase to counter their effect. The effect of resilience on coping among caregivers was also found significant in congruence with previous research [18] indicating that high resilience lead to high coping. Though here coping is not been categorized as emotion-focused or problem-solving, an overall view is considered as has been indicated [19] such that problem-focused and emotion focused coping complement each other.…”

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Effect Of High And Low Resilience On Coping And Depressive Symptoms Among Caregivers Of Psychiatric Patients Versus Caregivers Of Patients Suffering from Chronic Medical Illness

Singh¹

2014

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The purpose of this study was to investigate coping and depressive symptoms among resilient caregivers of psychiatric patients versus caregivers of patients suffering from chronic medical illness. The sample comprised of ninety two caregivers (forty one caregivers of psychiatric patients and forty one caregivers of patients suffering from chronic medical illness) who will be assessed on Brief resilience scale, Brief Coping Scale and Becks Depression Inventory. Results indicate that Caregivers with higher level of resilience had lower depressive symptoms and high coping, while dealing patients with psychiatric and chronic medical illness. Also type of illness was not a significant predictor for differences in coping and depressive symptoms.

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Effect Of High And Low Resilience On Coping And Depressive Symptoms Among Caregivers Of Psychiatric Patients Versus Caregivers Of Patients Suffering from Chronic Medical Illness

Singh¹

2014

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“…It may be due to a reduced coping ability in female caregivers as compared to males generated by increasing duties, demands and responsibilities as a result of care giving. Increased rates of depression and anxiety have been observed in female caregivers of mentally ill patients when compared with the female non-caregivers in the community [23].…”

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Gender differences in anxiety and depression among the caregivers of patients with dementia

Verma¹,

Anand²

2012

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Background: Providing care to dementia patients itself poses risk of distress in bio-psychosocial paradigm. It is important to assess the mental health status and attend to the needs of caregivers. The present investigation focuses on gender differences related to anxiety and depression in caregivers of dementia patients. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in an out-patient setting in the Dementia clinic of a tertiary care hospital. Sixty caregivers of consescutive dementia patients receiving outpatient care were assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Descriptive analysis was done to find in between group differences for the male and female caregivers and Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated to find the association between the number of family members with chronic illness and the scores on HADS. Results: Male and female caregivers differed significantly on the HADS-Total, Anxiety and Depression subscale scores with female care givers having significantly higher scores. There was a significant correlation between the number of family members with chronic illness and HADS-Anxiety subscale scores in female caregivers. Conclusion: It is crucial to screen caregivers, especially females, of patients with dementia for presence of anxiety and depression. This approach will help timely identification and proper management of these individuals. It is important to promote measures to soften the impact that the patient has on the caregiver, and that, at the same time, improves the quality of life of the patient.

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A Study to Assess the Family Burden and Coping Strategies among the Caregivers of Patients with Schizophrenia

Rajathi¹,

Gandhimathi²

2015

Pondicherry Journal of Nursing

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Schizophrenia has often been described as the "cancer" of mental illness and care giving is a burdensome task for the family members. Assessing the family burden and coping strategies among the caregivers of patients with schizophrenia may help the caregivers to understand the nature of the problem and plan for better care. The Non experimental descriptive design was used. Fifty caregivers of schizophrenic patients were selected by using Non probability purposive sampling technique. Semi structured interview schedule and Coping inventory was used to assess the level of family burden & coping strategies of the caregivers of schizophrenic patients. The results regarding the Family burden of caregivers shows that 24(48%) of them had no burden and only 13(26%) of them had severe burden in the item of loss of patients income. 38(76%) of them had no burden and 6(12%) of them had severe burden in the item of family become secluded or withdrawn from others. Regarding coping strategies of caregivers in problem oriented coping method 74% of the them "Always" used the item of "Accept the situation as it is" and Inaffective oriented coping strategies 82% of them "Always" used the item of "pray" as a coping method. The study concludes that the caregivers of schizophrenic patients experience burden on the physical, emotional, financial aspects and the extent of the burden is closely linked to the amount of symptomatic behaviour of the patient. Coping positively will not only make the caregivers to feel better and also they will be able to take better care of schizophrenicpatients.

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Coping Styles, Stress Tolerance, and Wellbeing and their Correlations in the Women Spouses of the Mentally Ill

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Effect Of High And Low Resilience On Coping And Depressive Symptoms Among Caregivers Of Psychiatric Patients Versus Caregivers Of Patients Suffering from Chronic Medical Illness

Effect Of High And Low Resilience On Coping And Depressive Symptoms Among Caregivers Of Psychiatric Patients Versus Caregivers Of Patients Suffering from Chronic Medical Illness

Gender differences in anxiety and depression among the caregivers of patients with dementia

A Study to Assess the Family Burden and Coping Strategies among the Caregivers of Patients with Schizophrenia

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