Association of Caregiver Burden with Insight and Quality Of Life in Persons Suffering From Schizophrenia and Bipolar Affective Disorder.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2019, Vol 18, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: Caregivers play a pivotal role in the maintenance part of the management of psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric illnesses not only effect the patients, but also the lives of their caregivers. Insight is one of the most important aspects of the patients’ illness and plays an important role in drug compliance and thereby the maintenance of the remission.Quality of life of the persons with psychiatric illnesses may affect the caregivers’ suffering. As there are few studies determining the association between the insight, quality of life on caregiver burden, this study is performed to find the association between the caregiver burden and the insight and quality of life. Aim: To find the correlation between the caregiver burden with insight and quality of life of the patients attending the Government Hospital for Mental Care, Visakhapatnam with the experienced by their attendants. Methods:A sample of 60 patientsdiagnosed with Schizophrenia and BPAD as per ICD 10 criteria were takenand Birchwood Insight Scale for insight, WHO-QOL BREF scale for quality of life and Burden Assessment Scale for the caregiver burden were used.Correlation statistical tests were applied. Results:There was a significant positive correlation between insight and quality of life (r = 0.668), negative correlation between quality of life and the caregiver burden (r = - 0.367) in both the groups whereas there was a correlation between insight and the caregiver burden, it was not statistically significant. Conclusions:Insight and quality of life are lower in schizophrenia as compared to bipolar affective disorder. Caregiver burden is higher in schizophrenia compared to bipolar affective disorder. Insight and quality of life are positively correlated. Quality of life of the patients and the burden of their caregivers are negatively correlated.
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Dr. Naga Pavan Kumar K. S. V. R. , Dr. Prasanna Kumar N. , Dr. Padma V
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