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

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dc.contributor.authorAartien_US
dc.contributor.authorRuchikaen_US
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Rajeshen_US
dc.contributor.authorVarghese, Arunen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-06T08:36:17Z
dc.date.available2020-05-06T08:36:17Z
dc.date.issued2019-02
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsBSc (Hons.) Nursing Students, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsAssistant Professor, Department of Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsPhD Scholar, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationAarti, Ruchika, Kumar Rajesh, Varghese Arun . Depression and quality of life in family caregivers of individuals with psychiatric illness. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. 2019 Feb; 6(2): 715-720en_US
dc.identifier.issn2394-6032
dc.identifier.issn2394-6040
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/200997
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherMedip Academyen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber2en_US
dc.relation.volume6en_US
dc.source.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20190196en_US
dc.subjectCaregiveren_US
dc.subjectMental illnessen_US
dc.subjectDepressionen_US
dc.subjectQuality of lifeen_US
dc.titleDepression and quality of life in family caregivers of individuals with psychiatric illnessen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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