Psychosocial Problems of Families Caring for Relatives with Mental Illness and Their Coping Strategies at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital
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2019-01
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Addis Ababa University
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Family members play a major role in providing care-giving assistance to patients with mental illness and while providing care they may experience considerable amount of distress and poor quality of life, especially when they are not able to cope with the stress associated with the process of care giving. The study assessed the psychosocial experience and the coping strategies of caregivers of patients with mental illness in Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital. Mixed study designs were used. Data were entered into SPSS versions 21 for analysis. Descriptive statistics including, frequencies, proportion and mean was demonstrated by using tables, graphs and texts. Bivariate and multi-variate logistic regression analysis was computed considering p<0.05 to be statistically significant. The data were collected among 327 caregivers of mentally ill patients and source of data was selected by using convenient sampling technique. The questionnaire has three parts: Socio-demographic, Psychosocial problem and Coping mechanism. Among the participants, 110 (33.6 %) and 217 (66.4%) reported having high and no psychosocial problem respectively. The caregivers age range between 35 and 44 were 2.56 times more likely to have psychosocial problem {(AOR=2.56; (1.24, 5.25)} compared to those age between 25 and 34. In addition, caregivers of patients who were divorced were 4.3 times more likely to have psychosocial problem {(AOR=4.3; (1.23, 15.05)} compared to care givers of patients with mental illness those their marital status was unmarried. The study found that there were a relatively high number of psychosocial problems among caregivers of mentally ill patients. Most of the study participants 199(60.9%) have no experienced venting to escape the problem whereas few 8 (2.4%) of the study participants have.
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Psychosocial Problems of Illness and Their Coping Strategies