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1Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Public Health Nursing, the Faculty of Health Sciences, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
Purpose:
This descriptive study was conducted in order to determine care burden of caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients and their levels of coping with stress.
Methods:
The study was conducted with 134 caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients. The following data collection tools were used: the personal information form, the ZBI and SCI. The study participants were selected from the population by using an improbable random sampling method.
Results:
The average age of the caregivers was 49.95±13.68 and the majority were married and primary school graduates.
Conclusion:
This study determined that caregivers experienced a high level of burden. However, while the deal with their difficulties of providing effective care was found to have more coping methods they use.
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