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COPING STARTEGIES OF THE RELATIVES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS
Families caring for a member with a chronic severe mental illness like schizophrenia have to cope with a lot of burden and distress. The coping styles used by these families and their relationship to burden has not been studied in Indian families. This study aims to identify the coping styles adopte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2953668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206874 |
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author | Chandrasekaran, R. Sivaprakash, B. Jayestri, S.R. |
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description | Families caring for a member with a chronic severe mental illness like schizophrenia have to cope with a lot of burden and distress. The coping styles used by these families and their relationship to burden has not been studied in Indian families. This study aims to identify the coping styles adopted by the relatives of schizophrenic patients. 44 patients with schizophrenia and 44 relatives from an outpatient psychiatric clinic were assessed. Resignation, an emotion-focussed coping strategy, was found to be more commonly employed by the relatives, than other strategies. Majority of the relatives failed to maintain social contacts. Levels of burden and negative symptoms correlated significantly with the resignation strategy. Analysis of the coping strategies of the relatives is essential before clinical interventions with families are planned to improve the coping skills of the carers. |
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spelling | pubmed-29536682011-01-04 COPING STARTEGIES OF THE RELATIVES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS Chandrasekaran, R. Sivaprakash, B. Jayestri, S.R. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Families caring for a member with a chronic severe mental illness like schizophrenia have to cope with a lot of burden and distress. The coping styles used by these families and their relationship to burden has not been studied in Indian families. This study aims to identify the coping styles adopted by the relatives of schizophrenic patients. 44 patients with schizophrenia and 44 relatives from an outpatient psychiatric clinic were assessed. Resignation, an emotion-focussed coping strategy, was found to be more commonly employed by the relatives, than other strategies. Majority of the relatives failed to maintain social contacts. Levels of burden and negative symptoms correlated significantly with the resignation strategy. Analysis of the coping strategies of the relatives is essential before clinical interventions with families are planned to improve the coping skills of the carers. Medknow Publications 2002 /pmc/articles/PMC2953668/ /pubmed/21206874 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Chandrasekaran, R. Sivaprakash, B. Jayestri, S.R. COPING STARTEGIES OF THE RELATIVES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS |
title | COPING STARTEGIES OF THE RELATIVES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS |
title_full | COPING STARTEGIES OF THE RELATIVES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS |
title_fullStr | COPING STARTEGIES OF THE RELATIVES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS |
title_full_unstemmed | COPING STARTEGIES OF THE RELATIVES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS |
title_short | COPING STARTEGIES OF THE RELATIVES OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS |
title_sort | coping startegies of the relatives of schizophrenic patients |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2953668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206874 |
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