The care burden and coping levels of chronic psychiatric patients’ caregivers

摘要

Abstract Purpose This descriptive study was conducted in order to determine care burden of caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients and their levels of coping with stress. Methods The study was conducted with 134 caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients. The following data collection tools were used: the personal information form, the ZBI and SCI. The study participants were selected from the population by using an improbable random sampling method. Results The average age of the caregivers was 49.95±13.68 and the majority were married and primary school graduates. Conclusion This study determined that caregivers experienced a high level of burden. However, while the deal with their difficulties of providing effective care was found to have more coping methods they use.