ABSTRACT The highest numbers in elderly population affects to several aspects of life such as social, economy and health status. Those conditions need support from particularly family members (care giver) whom take care of elderly people and fulfill the physial and pshychosocial needs. Caregiving pattern are fulfill need of elderly in maintaining daily activity, pshychosocial and financial nee…
Background : Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with chronic developmental and causes deterioration. People with schizophrenia have obviously extent disability of daily function, so they need help and assistance from others (caregiver/carer) for their daily needs. This role will lead to an increase in the consequences, which ultimately willlead to the burden of care for the family. The a…
Families with a schizophrenic member often experience over-expression of recurrent emotion that may cause the schizophrenic member to relapse. Alleviating this emotion expression can help schizophrenic patients to attain better prognosis, improve their social function, and enhance their quality of life. Eclectic family counseling is a type of psycho-social therapy that helps family members to a…
For the families of individuals with schizophrenia, the illness can likewise be perplexing and burdensome. Understanding which symptoms are most problematic may be critical to helping families cope more effectively with mental illness. This study was aimed to examine association between caregiver burden and the positive and negative symptoms of Positive and Negative Symptom Scale for Schizophre…