Psychological Wellbeing And Care Burden Among Caregivers Of Mentally Ill Patient In Selected Hospital

Abstract

Background: The family is extremely crucial in the care of a mentally ill patient.  A caregiver who has been staying with the patient for a year or more and who plays a key role in their daily activities, interactions, and medical care has been described as a caregiver.  Studies suggested that mental illness caries high care burden on caregiver.

Objective - To assess the level of psychological wellbeing and care burden among caregivers of mentally ill patients. Material and Method: - quantitative research approach with descriptive research design was used, data was collected from selected hospital of Dehradun, Uttarakhand through consecutive sampling by interview method. The caregiver was assessed by Zarit burden scale and the Riff psychological well-being’s scale.

Result: Out of 123 caregiver men were more in number than women (58.5%). Zarit burden score was 10.38±3.593 and Riff psychological wellbeing score was28.943.822, and the majority of caregivers (50.6%) expressed low psychological well-being, and showing mild to moderate care burden (81.3%), a weak negative corelation that was r= -0.189 found between psychological well-being and care burden.

Conclusion: The Psychological well-being and care burden had significant negative correlation which mean that when caregivers care burden level increases the psychological wellbeing level deceased.