TY  - JOUR
TI  - Perceived care burden and related factors in primary caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder
AB  - Objectives: This study was carried out using a descriptive design to determine the perceived care burden of primarycaregivers of bipolar patients and the related factors.Methods: The sample of the study included caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder in the outpatient clinics andinpatient clinics of a university hospital in Istanbul. Data were collected between March and September 2018 using apersonal information form and the Caregiver Burden Inventory. Mann Whitney U test, independent sample t test, Kruskal Wallis H test, one-way ANOVA, LSD, and Dunn’s tests, and Spearman and Pearson correlation analyses were usedto analyze the data.Results: Analysis of the data indicated that 60.4% of the caregivers were women and that the mean age of the caregivers was 38.36±11.69 years. The caregivers’ mean score on the Caregivers’ Burden Inventory was 41.99±19.9, with thehighest mean score on the subscales being 12.35±5.25 on the Developmental Burden subscale. Caregivers who residedin the same home as the patient, were children of the patient, voluntarily provided care, experienced frequent difficulties in performing their role, evaluated their spiritual life as weak, had a patient often needed help from someoneelse in self-care and treatment, were subjected to violence by their patients, and had a patient with a high frequencyof symptoms associated with bipolar disorder or comorbidities had statistically significantly higher total scores on theCaregivers’ Burden Inventory and on the Inventory’s sub-scales than those of others (p<0.05). A statistically significantcorrelation was found between the number of days per week the caregivers provided care and the Time DependenceBurden subscale (p<0.001).Conclusion: Caregivers of the patients with bipolar disorder had a nearly moderate level of burden. It is recommendedthat additional comparative studies involving larger samples of caregivers from different socioeconomic backgroundsbe conducted on the subject of care burden.
AU  - Yılmaz, Sevil
AU  - ÇAMLI, BEGÜM
DO  - 10.14744/phd.2020.34654
PY  - 2021
JO  - Psikiyatri Hemşireliği Dergisi
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SN  - 2149-374X
SP  - 9
EP  - 17
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/410542
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