Coping In Caregivers of Chronic Schizophrenia and Bipolar Affective Disorder – A Comparative Study
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 11
Abstract
Care giving is a chronic stressor and different coping methods are used to handle such a situation. The present study attempts to assess coping in caregivers of Chronic Schizophrenia and Bipolar Affective Disorder and make a comparison between them. The study also tries to assess the relationship between the burdens experienced by the caregivers of both these groups of patients with the coping strategies adopted by them. It was a hospital based cross sectional and comparative study, conducted in the Department of Psychiatry, Assam MedicaI College and Hospital with a sample size of 30 primary caregivers of equal number of patients of Chronic Schizophrenia and 30 Primary caregivers of equal number of Bipolar Affective Disorder patients. Appropriate statistical tests were used for analysis of obtained data setting significance threshold at p <0.05. Caregivers of Chronic Schizophrenia experienced significantly higher burden than the caregivers of BPAD. Caregivers of Chronic Schizophrenia used mostly religious coping (90%) followed by external attribution and magical thinking. Among the caregivers of patients of BPAD the most commonly used coping strategies included help seeking (93.33%) followed by religious coping strategies and external attribution.
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Dr. Kavery Bora, Dr. Abhilekh Das
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