2013
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2013.785615
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Family Caregiving for Adults with Schizophrenia and Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is common among those with schizophrenia, but little is known about family members' roles in the care of relatives who have both schizophrenia and DM. The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to examine DM knowledge and caregiver burden among 27 family caregivers of people with schizophrenia and DM. Findings indicate that DM knowledge was low. Objective caregiver burden was highest for providing assistance with daily living activities. Subjective burden was highest for pre… Show more

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“…Due to low functional abilities and self-care, family caregivers often assume responsibility for providing assistance to an ill family member in several areas of life, such as activities of daily living, treatment adherence, crisis and safety issues, behavior management, financies, and emotional support [5]. Families constitute a primary source of care for people with mental illness.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Due to low functional abilities and self-care, family caregivers often assume responsibility for providing assistance to an ill family member in several areas of life, such as activities of daily living, treatment adherence, crisis and safety issues, behavior management, financies, and emotional support [5]. Families constitute a primary source of care for people with mental illness.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Further research is required to explore this trend and confirm is such findings are consistent among a larger sample. It may be that expectations of care provision were also influenced by carer knowledge of the positive impact on physical health to be gained from engaging in positive health risk behaviours [79,102]. Subsequent research is required to explore such a speculation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such findings may suggest carers' own risk status may not impact on their perceptions of physical health care for their family members with a mental health condition. Further research is required to explore this finding to determine if carers may have the potential to support health risk behaviour change among people with a mental health condition (which a limited body of research suggests [78,79,101,102,107,108]) and if their own risk status may impact on such a potential. Research among mental health professionals suggests the provision of support to change health risk behaviours may be decreased in those professionals engage in health risk behaviours [66].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Future research should include longitudinal analyses, assessing the change in these factors over time, and could consider the influence of various aspects of diabetes in order to inform appropriate support that could be given to patients and caregivers. Several diabetes-related issues (e.g., restricting intake of inappropriate foods, using a glucose meter, and providing assistance with oral medication) have been associated with objective burden in caregivers of patients with both schizophrenia and diabetes [ 43 ], and with subjective burden in caregivers of patients with both dementia and diabetes [ 22 ]. It is also possible that less time-consuming options for diabetes treatment and monitoring may offer a potential way to reduce burden, by reducing the time spent by the caregiver on iADL.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%