Relationship of family caregiver burden with quality of care and psychopathology in a sample of Arab subjects with schizophrenia

• Published in: BMC psychiatry Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 71
• Main Authors: Zahid, Muhammad A, Ohaeri, Jude U
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 10.09.2010; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adult; Arabs; Arabs - psychology; Arabs - statistics & numerical data; Attitude to Health; Care and treatment; Caregivers; Caregivers - psychology; Cost of Illness; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Families & family life; Family Health - ethnology; Family Relations; Female; Health services; Hospitals; Humans; Illnesses; Institutionalization; Kuwait; Male; Medical care; Mental health; Needs Assessment; Patients; Personal Satisfaction; Practice; Psychiatry; Psychological aspects; Psychopathology; Quality Assurance, Health Care - methods; Quality management; Quality of Life; Schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - ethnology; Schizophrenia - therapy; Schizophrenic Psychology; Social networks; Sociodemographics; Surveys and Questionnaires; Kuwait; Middle East

Although the burden experienced by families of people with schizophrenia has long been recognized as one of the most important consequences of the disorder, there are no reports from the Arab world. Following the example of the five-nation European (EPSILON) study, we explored the following research...