Quality of life of caregivers of mentally ill patients in a tertiary care hospital

Basheer, S.; Khera, Anurag; Garg, Rajat; Kumar, Raj; Vashisht, Shruti

doi:10.4103/0972-6748.181721

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“…In fact, family caregivers can have an additional suffering by watching someone they love suffer. The effect of caring for a patient with a mental disorder on the quality of life (QoL) of family caregivers has been highlighted in previous reports [3,4,5,6]. The low QoL of caregivers, probably, comes from reactions to the illness, changes in the household routine, and/or a reduction in leisure activities [7].…”

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Factors Associated with Marital Satisfaction and Quality of Life in Family Caregivers of Patients with Mental Disorders

Nogueira

Minamisava

Teles

et al. 2019

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(1) Background: The aim of this research was to analyze factors associated with quality of life (QoL) and marital satisfaction in married family caregivers of patients with mental disorders. (2) Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in all community mental health services in Goiania municipality, Brazil, in 2016–2017. Married family caregivers of patients with severe and persistent mental disorders were recruited and their QoL and marital satisfaction was assessed by using the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument Abbreviated version (WHOQOL-BREF) and Marital Satisfaction Scale. Multiple linear regressions were performed to identify factors associated with QoL and marital satisfaction. (3) Results: For 163 family caregivers, the psychological and environmental QoL domains presented the best and the worst scores, respectively. Factors independently associated with better QoL for caregivers were male caregiver, the younger age of a caregiver, >8 years of schooling, ≥5 years as a caregiver who performed physical activities, caregiver without chronic disease, and no patient’s crisis in the last 30 days. Factors independently associated with marital satisfaction of the caregiver were male caregiver, caregiver with >8 years of schooling, caregiver who received support by relatives to care for the patient, caregiver who performed physical activities, no patient’s crisis in the last 30 days, and patient hospitalization in the last six months; (4) Conclusions: The main predictor for marital satisfaction was support by relatives, and for QoL it was no patient’s crisis in the last 30 days.

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Factors Associated with Marital Satisfaction and Quality of Life in Family Caregivers of Patients with Mental Disorders

Nogueira

Minamisava

Teles

et al. 2019

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“…These results are in agreement with several studies in which it has reported that less educated, unemployed, female and elderly caregiver, patient's gender had statistically significant association with impaired quality of life as compare to their counterparts. 8,9,13,18,[22][23][24][25][26]…”

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“…Similarly, a high level of stress, headache and family conflict, were also common in caregivers of individual with mental illness. 8 It has been reported that environmental condition, caregivers' factors and caregiving situation had a significant impact on QOL of caregivers. Sociodemographic features of the patient such as age, gender, marital status, education status and patients' diagnosis had a direct link to psychosocial distress and QoL of a caregiver.…”

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Depression and quality of life in family caregivers of individuals with psychiatric illness

Aarti

Ruchika

Kumar

et al. 2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Psychiatric illnesses are mushrooming more than any physical illness. Change in health care delivery system emphases the need of family caregivers. Providing care for a psychiatric patient is demanding and challenging task leads psychosocial distress and negative impacts in quality of life. The study aims to determine depression, quality of life and their association with sociodemographic variables of family caregivers.Methods: Sample consisted 150 family caregivers of individual with psychiatric illness seeking psychiatric outpatient department services. Physical health questionnaire (PHQ-9) and World Health Organization quality of life –BREF (WHOQoL-BREF) was used to ascertain information on depression and quality of life. A relevant descriptive and inferential statistics was applied to compute results.Results: Findings exhibit that environmental quality of life domain was severely affected in caregivers. Further, 24% caregivers reported symptoms of moderate-severe depression. Occupation of caregiver found significant association with physical (p=0.001), psychological (p=0.001), social (p=0.016) and environmental (p=0.001) domain of QoL. Support from society also expressed significant association with psychological (p=0.001), social (p=0.007) and environmental (p=0.044) domain of QoL. Further, education of the caregiver shows significant association with physical (p=0.000), psychological (p=0.000), social (p=0.002) and environmental (p=0.000) domain of QoL.Conclusions: Findings of the study sensitize policy makers and administrators to consider the need based psychiatric rehabilitation and implement it to reduce psychological distress and improve the quality of life of caregivers.

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“…The family caregivers were also asked to indicate the number of hours per day and the number of years during which they provided care for their family member. The number of hours per day and years of providing care have been used in several studies as objective measures for caregivers' burden among several populations, including mentally ill patients (Basheer et al, 2015), chronically ill patients (Chang et al, 2010), and Alzheimer's patients (Haro et al, 2014). In addition, in an open-ended question, we asked the family members to indicate the health condition, diagnosis, illness, or disability of their care recipient for whom they were providing care.…”

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Caregivers of Persons with Diverse Health Conditions: Demographics and Burden of Care

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Although caregiver identity theory asserts there is no single generic caregiver identity, comparisons on demographic characteristics and burden of care have not been made among caregivers of persons with various health conditions. Using social media to access study participants, this cross-sectional study of 234 family caregivers of persons with various health conditions examined their demographic characteristics (age, gender, and race/ethnicity) and burden of care (daily care hours and caregiving years) using online data collection. Nine groups of caregivers were formed by the care recipient’s health condition. Caregiver groups were similar in gender (95% women) and race/ethnicity (88% white), and differed on age (F=4.74; p<.001) daily care hours, and caregiving years (F’s=2.76 and 2.84; p<.01). The findings suggest that caution is needed when recruiting caregivers through social media as the sample may not represent all caregivers. However, differences by care recipient condition on age and burden of care warrant further consideration.

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Quality of life of caregivers of mentally ill patients in a tertiary care hospital

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Factors Associated with Marital Satisfaction and Quality of Life in Family Caregivers of Patients with Mental Disorders

Factors Associated with Marital Satisfaction and Quality of Life in Family Caregivers of Patients with Mental Disorders

Depression and quality of life in family caregivers of individuals with psychiatric illness

Caregivers of Persons with Diverse Health Conditions: Demographics and Burden of Care

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