Mental health literacy in family caregivers: A comparative analysis

Mehrotra, Kanika; Nautiyal, Snigdha; Raguram, Ahalya

doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2018.01.021

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“…Educational level, socioeconomic standard, the residence of the caregivers in addition to patients' behavior are the factors proved to predict caregivers' literacy and attitude towards mental illness in several studies [29] [30]. As regards to our study, the increasing age of the caregivers significantly predicted poor knowledge and negative attitude towards mental illness (P = 0.036, ß = −0.045).…”

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“…An Indian study compared the literacy and attitude of the family caregivers of mentally ill patients towards mental illness over a 23year period between 1993 and 2016. The study revealed that the area of abnormal behaviors (non-restrained aggressive behavior, weak cognitive control, and bizarre behavior) showed a worsening of negative attitudes [30].…”

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Knowledge, attitude and health-seeking behavior among family caregivers of mentally ill patients at Assiut University Hospitals: a cross-sectional study

Gabra

Ebrahim

Osman

et al. 2020

Middle East Curr Psychiatry

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Background: Mental illness is associated with misunderstanding and unfavorable attitude worldwide. The belief in its spiritual nature made traditional healers the main service consultants for mentally ill patients. The present study is a cross-sectional study conducted among 425 main family caregivers of mentally ill patients at Assiut University Hospital. The objective of the study was to assess the caregivers' knowledge and attitude towards mental illness as well as their health-seeking behavior for their mentally ill relatives. Results: The studied caregivers had low scores of knowledge and attitude towards mental illness. Age of the caregivers, their education, and the type of first consulted care and aggressive behavior of the mentally ill relatives were the significant predictors of caregivers' knowledge and attitude towards mental illness. The majority of caregivers (80.2%) sought advice for the first time from traditional healers. Traditional healers referred only 16.4% of caregivers' mentally ill relatives to psychiatric care. Conclusion: The studied caregivers had poor knowledge and a negative attitude towards mental illness. Traditional healers were the main consulted care. So, increasing awareness of mental illness is highly recommended.

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Knowledge, attitude and health-seeking behavior among family caregivers of mentally ill patients at Assiut University Hospitals: a cross-sectional study

Gabra

Ebrahim

Osman

et al. 2020

Middle East Curr Psychiatry

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“…Although the family can be a key resource in the care of patients with mental illness, if the family is poor, either monetarily or because of lack of other support resources, their ability to care is substantially reduced, which results in the difficulty of living with, and caring for, their mentally ill relatives being burdensome. To enable families to care for their mentally ill relatives, they need specific empowerment programs which may include the outcome of the patient's disease; management of the patient's symptoms; as well as assistance with developing and reinforcing social networks [26,35,36], and the ability to prevent relapse [37]. Moreover, they need to be trained on how to assess if the mental health condition gets out of control and what actions to take.…”

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Challenges of Providing Home Care for a Family Member with Serious Chronic Mental Illness: A Qualitative Enquiry

Mokwena

Ngoveni

2020

IJERPH

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The South African Mental Health Act of 2002 advocates the de-institutionalization of treatment of patients with mental disorders, so that the mental health care users or patients are treated in their communities. Although this approach is often used to discharge patients from hospital, no feasibility assessments are conducted to ascertain adequate care for these patients. The objective of the study was to explore the experiences of family members who provide home care for patients with serious mental disorders. A qualitative explorative design was used to interview 20 primary caregivers whose family members were readmitted to a public psychiatric hospital in Pretoria. Data were analysed using NVivo version 11. The findings are that caring for patients with serious mental illness at home is difficult, sometimes unbearable, because the families have to deal with violence perpetrated by the patients, safety concerns, financial difficulties and emotional turmoil, and wish that the patients would be kept in institutions. The absence of required skills and resources to care for the mentally ill at home exposes the patients and their families to emotional, financial and social difficulties, and results in unfavourable outcomes for both the patients and their families.

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“…Hayes et al (2015) explained that caregivers or families who are responsible for caring for family members who suffer from psychiatric disorders would experience the burden of life because of the complex responsibilities of caregivers on funding, patient health care, and freedom and caregiver activity itself. The research of (Mehrotra, Nautiyal, & Raguram, 2018) in line with the first theme, namely the management of family coping mechanisms with mental family members explaining that the term 'mental health literacy' which is defined as "knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management or prevention". Mental health literacy consists of several components, including (a) the ability to recognize specific disorders or different types of psychological distress; (b) knowledge and beliefs about risk factors and causes; (c) knowledge and beliefs about self-help interventions; (d) knowledge and beliefs about professional help available; (e) attitudes which facilitate recognition and appropriate help-seeking; and (f) knowledge of how to seek mental health information.…”

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Exploring Jember Community View in the Treatment of Mental Health Disorders with the Perspective of a Transcultural Nursing

Deviantony¹,

Susanto²

2020

NLJ

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The problems of people with mental health disorders (PWMHD) include physical problems, psychological problems, and social problems. Jember Regency in 2018 had 514 new cases, and Panti village was ranked first with 114 clients (22.1%) of the total cases in the Jember Regency. Community views accompanied by cultural background often prevent families with PWMHD from coming to the health center to seek care and management of health services. Negative public views on PWMHD will reduce PWMHD visits to seek treatment so that cases of drug withdrawal will increase. Nurses have an essential role in providing nursing care to clients with mental disorders. Without knowledge of the cultural viewpoints of the community, nurses will find it difficult to find strategies to reduce the occurrence of stigma and discrimination in PWMHD This study uses an ethnography study, qualitative approach, and descriptive design to explore and understand about the Jember community view in the treatment of mental disorders with a perspective of transcultural nursing. The technique of collecting data uses in-depth interviews with a semi-structured interview guide involving seven participants, and the data were analyzed using interpretive phenomenology analysis. This research has passed the ethical test with ethical approval No.595 / UN25.8 / KEPK / DL / 2019. This research conducted five themes. First is the family efforts to seek healing; the second theme is received trials from God; the third theme is community stigma to people with mental disorders; the fourth theme is community expectations for people with mental disorders, and the fifth theme is community acceptance of people with mental disorders. Considering the impact that will arise from this condition if it does not get proper treatment, it is needed the role of health workers in providing services to the family to be able to increase visits to health services in order to improve the recovery of people with mental disorders.

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Mental health literacy in family caregivers: A comparative analysis

Cited by 35 publications

References 29 publications

Knowledge, attitude and health-seeking behavior among family caregivers of mentally ill patients at Assiut University Hospitals: a cross-sectional study

Knowledge, attitude and health-seeking behavior among family caregivers of mentally ill patients at Assiut University Hospitals: a cross-sectional study

Challenges of Providing Home Care for a Family Member with Serious Chronic Mental Illness: A Qualitative Enquiry

Exploring Jember Community View in the Treatment of Mental Health Disorders with the Perspective of a Transcultural Nursing

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