Resilience And Its Associated Factors Among Primary Caregivers Of Schizophrenic Patients -Study From Jammu, J&K, North India.

Rameshwar S Manhas; Rukhsana Akhter; Angli Manhas; Rishabh Sharma; Jagdish R Thappa; Gaurav S Manhas

Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2019

Resilience And Its Associated Factors Among Primary Caregivers Of Schizophrenic Patients -Study From Jammu, J&K, North India.

Rameshwar S Manhas, Rukhsana Akhter, Angli Manhas, Rishabh Sharma, Jagdish R Thappa, Gaurav S Manhas

Abstract :

Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic disease with relapsing and remitting course. Caregivers require resilience to overcome the burden of care, and this requires health and life adaptation for themselves and their families. Aims: To study resilience and its associated factors among primary caregivers of schizophrenic patients. Materials & Methods: The present study was cross-sectional, conducted on 150 caregivers of schizophrenic patients, over a period of 2 months, at Government Psychiatric Diseases Hospital Jammu. Informed consent was taken prior to initiation of study. The caregivers of the patients were assessed by 25 Item Resilience Scale.3 Results: The difference in mean resilience score of male and female caregivers was 8.87 which was statistically significant (p-value=0.01). Moreover the difference in mean resilience score of educated and uneducated caregivers was 6.3 which was statistically highly significant (p-value=0.001). The mean resilience score of employed caregivers i.e.123.05 was higher than that of unemployed caregivers i.e.115.14 with a statistically significant difference of 7.91 (p-value=0.05). Caregivers who were parents by relation to their patient had a high mean resilience score of 121.79 than other caregivers who had mean resilience score of 119 with a difference of 2.79 which was statistically highly significant (p-value=0.001). Caregivers who were educated and parent by relation have significant positive whereas those who were females and unemployed have significant negative correlation with resilience among caregivers of schizophrenia patients Conclusion: Resilience was high in caregivers who were above 35 years of age, males, educated, employed and were parents of their patient. In present times there is strong need for developing stress coping techniques and counseling intervention for promoting resilience among caregivers of schizophrenic patients