Subjective quality of life of family caregivers of community living Sudanese psychiatric patients

Awadalla, Abdel W.; Ohaeri, Jude U.; Salih, Aaziza A.; Tawfiq, Adel M

doi:10.1007/s00127-005-0947-x

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“…Parents had a statistically significant (p=0.009) poorer Quality of Life when compared to caregivers in other relationships (children, sibling). Similarly, Aschbrenner KA et al [18] found parents to have a very high degree of burden and Awadalla AW et al [19] found parents to have least QOL scores.…”

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Quality of life in caregivers of patients with bipolar mood disorder with current manic episode and its correlation with severity of illness

Panigrahi¹,

Acharya²,

Patel³

et al. 2014

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Quality of life in caregivers of patients with bipolar mood disorder with current manic episode and its correlation with severity of illness

Panigrahi¹,

Acharya²,

Patel³

et al. 2014

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“…Severe positive symptoms of schizophrenia such as hallucination, delusion, aggressiveness and destructive behavior are known to cause distress to the caregivers and lower their QOL (10,12). It is suggested that the threatening nature of positive symptoms even though they are more episodic, as compared to the less threatening negative symptoms even though they are more chronic, make them more intolerable to caregivers (11,12).…”

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“…Higher educational level appears to provide an advantage to the caregivers. It is speculated that better knowledge give rise to better capability to cope with their caregiving task as well as other stressors in life (10,43). Caregivers with higher education possibly have more secured job and stable financial income that reduce the financial burden on caregiving task, thus improving their satisfaction for lives.…”

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“…Their subjective QOL was found to be similar to that of the patients but lower than that of a general population sample. (10) The level of QOL in caregivers of the mentally ills has been found to be associated with various factors including illness factors in patients and psychosocial background of the caregivers. Severity of symptoms, illness duration, level of disabilities, perceived stigma (11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18), being female caregivers with nuclear family (19), being older with lower socioeconomic status (12) and recent life crisis (20) were found to be associated with lower QOL.…”

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Schizophrenia in Malaysian families: A study on factors associated with quality of life of primary family caregivers

ZamZam

Midin

Hooi

et al. 2011

Int J Ment Health Syst

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Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic illness which brings detrimental effects in the caregivers' health. This study was aimed at highlighting the socio-demographic, clinical and psychosocial factors associated with the subjective Quality of Life (QOL) of Malaysian of primary family caregivers of subjects with schizophrenia attending an urban tertiary care outpatient clinic in Malaysia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed to study patient, caregiver and illness factors associated with the QOL among 117 individuals involved with caregiving for schizophrenia patients. The study used WHOQOL-BREF to assess caregivers' QOL and Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) to assess the severity of patients' symptoms. Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) assessed the stress level due to life events. Results: The mean scores of WHOQOL-BREF in physical, psychological, social and environmental domains were 66.62 (14.36), 61.32 (15.52), 62.77 (17.33), 64.02 (14.86) consecutively. From multiple regression analysis, factors found to be significantly associated with higher QOL were higher educational level among caregivers in social and environmental domains; caregivers not having medical problem/s in physical and psychological domains; later onset and longer illness duration of illness in social domains; patients not attending day care program in environmental domain; lower BPRS score in physical and environmental domains. SRRS score of caregivers was also found to have a significant negative correlation with QOL in environmental and psychological domains. Other factors were not significantly associated with QOL. Conclusion: Caregivers with more social advantages such as higher educational level and physically healthier and dealing with less severe illness had significantly higher QOL in various aspects. Supporting the caregivers in some of these modifiable factors in clinical practice is important to achieve their higher level QOL.

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“…Una posible explicación de la diferencia con los resultados de este estudio es la independencia del paciente según perfil PULSES, y que cerca de la mitad de los cuidadores están dedicados al hogar y dependen de sus propios ingresos (33). Si bien el aislamiento es "la soledad que se experimenta como negativa, amenazadora e impuesta por otros" (34), y aún no es manifestada por los cuidadores del estudio, se debe evitar su aparición mediante estrategias dirigidas a los cuidadores que asisten con la persona en situación de cronicidad a los programas de promoción y prevención, como disfrutar el tiempo libre y reunirse con sus familiares para satisfacer las necesidades sociales y promover su calidad de vida (35).…”

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Percepción de la calidad de vida de cuidadores de pacientes asistentes a un programa de crónicos, Villavicencio, Meta

2016

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Objetivo: determinar la percepción de la calidad de vida de cuidadores informales de adultos que padecen enfermedad crónica, que asisten al Programa de Crónicos de la Empresa Social del Estado de Villavicencio, Colombia. Materiales y métodos: estudio descriptivo, de abordaje cuantitativo y de corte transversal en cuidadores informales (n = 180) de adultos crónico usuarios del Programa de Promoción y Prevención de Crónicos. Con los cuidadores se utilizó el instrumento Calidad de Vida (QOL) versión familiar de Ferrell y Grant, y para valorar la funcionalidad de los pacientes crónicos, se usó el perfil Pulses adaptado por Granger. Se determinan rangos de puntaje, medidas de tendencia central y dispersión para los dominios de bienestar y calidad de vida. Resultados: en la mayoría de los cuidadores se evidenció que los dominios de bienestar físico y social no se encuentran afectados, y las dimensiones de bienestar psicológico y espiritual están en nivel medio, al igual que la calidad de vida. Conclusiones: para la enfermería, los resultados pueden orientar procesos de capacitación a fin de fortalecer habilidades de cuidado en cuidadores que permitan promover la salud y el bienestar, evitar el deterioro de la calidad de vida y cuidar oportunamente y en mejores condiciones al familiar que padece enfermedad crónica.

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Subjective quality of life of family caregivers of community living Sudanese psychiatric patients

Cited by 44 publications

References 36 publications

Quality of life in caregivers of patients with bipolar mood disorder with current manic episode and its correlation with severity of illness

Quality of life in caregivers of patients with bipolar mood disorder with current manic episode and its correlation with severity of illness

Schizophrenia in Malaysian families: A study on factors associated with quality of life of primary family caregivers

Percepción de la calidad de vida de cuidadores de pacientes asistentes a un programa de crónicos, Villavicencio, Meta

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