Providing care to relatives with mental illness: reactions and distress among primary informal caregivers

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• 作者：Sherilyn Chang ; Yunjue Zhang ; Anitha Jeyagurunathan ; Ying Wen Lau…
• 关键词：Caregiver ; Caregiver Reaction Assessment ; Caregiving reaction ; Distress ; Mental health ; Burden
• 刊名：BMC Psychiatry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：459 KB
• 刊物主题：Psychiatry; Psychotherapy;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-244X

文摘

Background The responsibility of caring for relatives with mental illness often falls on the family members. It has been reported that the reactions to or consequences of providing care are what rendered the role of a caregiver challenging and hence a source of distress. This present study thus aimed to identify socio-demographic correlates of caregiving experiences using the Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA) and to examine the associations between reactions to caregiving and psychological distress.