Background: Psychological distress and burden among family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia can be mediated by resilience and perceived social support from family members, friends, and other significant caregivers. These are integral to bring positive changes in recovery and adaptation of family caregivers. Those reduce stress characteristics, also improve quality of life and quality of care provided for patients by family caregivers. Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between level of resilience and type of perceived social support among family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Design: A descriptive correlational design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at Elmaamoura Hospital for Psychiatric Medicine in Alexandria, Egypt. Subjects: Subjects of this study consisted of 200 family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Tools: Three tools were used to collect necessary data namely a sociodemographic structured interview schedule, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10) and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). Results: Among the studied caregivers 76% had low level of resilience and most of the caregivers 82.5% had moderate perceived social support. A statistically significant positive relationship was found between resilience and total score of perceived social support & its three subscales (family social support, important people social support and friends social support). On further analysis using stepwise multiple regression, the study revealed that family social support emerged as the first predictor of resilience. Conclusion: It can be concluded that most of the studied patients had low level of resilience and moderate perceived social support. Moreover, perceived social support is related to and can predict more resilience among family caregivers.
Background: Interpersonal communication competence impairments are widespread among patients with schizophrenia, with the majority experiencing ongoing difficulty in life functioning. One possible contributor to these difficulties may be deficit in emotion recognition with schizophrenic patients which are essential components of interpersonal communications competence. Emotion recognition is receptive emotional skills include the ability to accurately perceive emotion. Consequently, patients who have emotion recognition deficit often experience difficulty in interpersonal communications competence. Objective: Assess the level of interpersonal communication competence and the ability of emotional recognition among patients with schizophrenia. Settings: The study was conducted at EL-Maamoura Hospital for Psychiatric Medicine, in Alexandria, Egypt. Subjects: the data was collected from 270 outpatients with schizophrenia. Tools: three tools were used to collect the date; sociodemographic and clinical structured interview schedule, Interpersonal communication competence Scale (ICCS) and Bell-Lysaker Emotion Recognition Task (BLERT). Results: Findings of the present study revealed that 99.3% of the studied patients have low level of interpersonal communication competence and most of the studied patients have emotional recognition deficit in all emotion except happy emotion. Moreover, statistically positive significant correlations were found between overall interpersonal communication competence and overall emotional recognition among the studied subjects. (r=0.659, P<0.001). Conclusion:The present study concluded that, the studied subjects demonstrated low level of interpersonal communication competence, emotional recognition deficit and there was positive correlation between interpersonal communication competence and emotional recognition. Recommendations: Hospital policies should incorporate the routine clinical assessment of interpersonal communication competence and emotional recognition among patients with schizophrenia to consider appropriate psychiatric nursing care and intervention.
Nurses caring for burn injured patient had high stress levels in the workload and time pressure. The main stressful factors among burn injured patient care are high patients` death, emergency situations, and low supportive relationships. Prolonged stress without effective coping strategies may negatively contribute to the nurses' quality of life and quality of care delivered. Aim of the study: Assess perceived stress and coping strategies among nurses caring for burn injured patient and to investigate the relationship between perceived stress and coping strategies among those nurses. Design: A descriptive correlational design was utilized for this study. Setting: The study was conducted in burn unit at Main Alexandria University hospital. Subjects: All nurses are working in burn care unit (45 nurse) were included in the study. Tools: Socio-demographic and work characteristics interview schedule, Perceived Stress and Brief Cope Scale. Results: Results of the study revealed that, more than half of the studied nurses had moderate level of perceived stress and rest of them having high level. The majority of the studied nurses had moderate level of problem-focused, emotion focused and dysfunctional coping strategies. A positive statistical significant relationship between nurses' perceived stress and behavioral disengagement & selfblame coping strategies and a negative statistical significant relationship between perceived stress and active coping & planning, seeking emotional support and positive reframing coping strategies were found. Conclusion & recommendations: Perceived stress among studied nurses negatively related to problem-focused & emotion-focused coping strategies and positively related to dysfunctional coping strategies. Based on the findings, it is recommended to implement programs to tackle nurses' stress level and improve their coping skills.
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