Psychiatric Morbidity among Caregivers of Schizophrenia Patients – A Study in Tertiary Care Psychiatric Hospital in Dhaka

Authors

  • MM Jalal Uddin Assistant Professor; Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Agargaon, Dhaka
  • Md. Tariqul Alam Assistant Professor, Department of Geriatric and Organic Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health, Dhaka
  • Helal Uddin Ahmed Assistant Professor, Department of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health, Dhaka
  • Niaz Mohammad Khan Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka-1207
  • MA Hamid Professor, Department of Geriatric and Organic Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health, Dhaka
  • Waziul Alam Chowdhury Professor, Director cum Professor, National Institute of Mental Health, Dhaka-1207
  • Md. Golam Rabbani Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatry, Popular Medical College, Dhaka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/jcamr.v2i1.22581

Keywords:

psychiatric morbidity, caregiver, schizophrenia

Abstract

Background: Severe mental illness like schizophrenia has far-reaching consequence for both patients and caregivers and their relatives and they also experience feeling of loss and grief. They are confronted with uncertainty and emotion of shame, guilt and anger like the patients they feel stigmatized and socially isolated. Caring for a family member with schizophrenia is an enduring stressor and causes considerable amount of burden.

Objective: To assess mental health status of the caregivers of schizophrenia patients.

Methodology: This descriptive cross sectional study was done among the caregivers of schizophrenia patients in outpatient and inpatient department of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dhaka, Bangladesh from September 2010 to February 2011. A semi-structured Questionnaire and General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) were applied to the caregivers of schizophrenia patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Among the respondents whose GHO-28 score were 4 or above Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Non Patient (SCID-I/NP) version was applied to identify psychiatric disorders among the caregivers of schizophrenia.

Results: Out of 272 respondents most of them were female (88.97%), housewife (72.42%) of 21 to 50 yrs age (80.51%). In this study 22.43% of respondents were suffering from different types of mental disorders. Among them major depressive disorder were most prevalent (11.8%). Other psychiatric disorders were found generalized anxiety disorder (4.8%), pain disorder (2.9%). Less common were panic disorder, social phobia, adjustment disorder and undifferentiated somatoform disorder (0.7% in each type).

Conclusions: Significant proportions of the caregiver of schizophrenic patients were suffering from psychiatric disorders that did not get any psychiatric treatment.

Journal of Current and Advance Medical Research 2015;2(1):12-17

DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jcamr.v2i1.22581

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Published

2015-03-14

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Uddin, M. J., Alam, M. T., Ahmed, H. U., Khan, N. M., Hamid, M., Chowdhury, W. A., & Rabbani, M. G. (2015). Psychiatric Morbidity among Caregivers of Schizophrenia Patients – A Study in Tertiary Care Psychiatric Hospital in Dhaka. Journal of Current and Advance Medical Research, 2(1), 12–17. https://doi.org/10.3329/jcamr.v2i1.22581

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015)

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