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The care burden and coping levels of chronic psychiatric patients’ caregivers

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, ISSN: 1744-6163, Vol: 54, Issue: 2, Page: 230-241
2018
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Purpose: This descriptive study was conducted in order to determine care burden of caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients and their levels of coping with stress. Methods: The study was conducted with 134 caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients. The following data collection tools were used: the personal information form, the ZBI and SCI. The study participants were selected from the population by using an improbable random sampling method. Results: The average age of the caregivers was 49.95±13.68 and the majority were married and primary school graduates. Conclusion: This study determined that caregivers experienced a high level of burden. However, while the deal with their difficulties of providing effective care was found to have more coping methods they use.

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