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Ana Carolina Guidorizzi Zanetti1, Sueli Aparecida Frari Galera
1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagen Psiquiátrica, EERP-USP. carolzan@eerp.usp.br
Abstract:
The impact of schizophrenia on the family has been compared to the trauma experienced by victims of catastrophes. Considering the social repercussion on the health system and the emotional repercussion on the schizophrenic individual, with consequences to the family group, an ethnographic case study was developed aimed at describing the impact of schizophrenia on the family. One family consisted offaither, mother, and five children, four of whom are schizophrenic, participated in the study, and have had a follow-up in a public psychiatric service. Schizophrenia impacts family members through their suffering, isolation, and overload.
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