Determine the Level of Burden among the Caregivers of Mentally ill Patients

• Author Details:   
• Vikrant Nesari ^*
• Sudha Raddi

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Background: The family members play an essential part in providing care for mentally ill patients. Although most of the families show resilience in caring of their relatives, experience lot of physical and emotional distress. A study aims to determine the caregiver burden of family members of mentally ill patients.

Objectives: (1) To study the level of burden among the care givers of mentally ill patient. (2) To analyse the association between burden and demographical variables. Methods: Non-probability, convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample for this study. The sample selection was based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Results: The study determined that 21(52.5%) of the subjects are suffering with high level of burden, whereas 19 (47.5%) are suffering with low level of burden.

Conclusion: findings reveals that there is no statistical significant association between the burden scores of caregivers of mentally ill patients and selected socio demographic variables

Keywords: Burden, caregivers.