Introduction: Schizophrenia is a chronic severe mental illness which not only affects patients but also causes significant burden and stress to the caregivers. There is definite lack of studies in India exploring caregiver burden and psychological stress. Study objective was to assess psychological stress and burden on caregivers of schizophrenic patients. Material and methods: The study sample included 52 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and their caregivers, randomly selected from the patients coming to the OPD of two tertiary care centres in Bareilly, as per inclusion and exclusion criteria. Burden Assessment Schedule and General health questionnaire-12 were used for the study. Results: Our study also shows that 42.31% caregivers experienced severe burden. Caregivers of patients with low levels of education reported greater burden. Parents and spouses reported moderately higher level of burden, but siblings reported highest level of burden. Parents had greater psychological stress as compared to spouses and siblings. Caregivers with higher psychological stress found to have heavier caregiving burden. Conclusion: Caregivers of schizophrenic patients suffered from significant burden. It thus becomes important to plan interventions that would reduce their burden of care and thus improving their psychological well-being.
Introduction: People with epilepsy are more likely than the general population to have comorbid psychiatric disorders that include anxiety, depression, and interictal and chronic psychoses. Even though psychiatric comorbidity is common in epilepsy, it is underrecognized and undertreated, both in specialty epilepsy centers and also in community-based services. A thorough assessment of this was sought in this study among the patients of Rohilkhand region of Uttar Pradesh (India).
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