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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl) J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168 Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32nd EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
The care burden and coping levels of chronic psychiatric patients’ caregivers
Erman YILDIZ1 and Rukuye AYLAZ2
Inonu University, Turkey
Aim: This descriptive study was conducted in order to determine care burden of caregivers of chronic psychiatric patients and
their levels of coping with stress.
Method: The study was conducted between February 2015 and November 2015 in a psychiatric unit of a research hospital
located in the east of Turkey.The study was conducted with 134 caregivers. The following data collection tools were used: the
personal information form, the Zarit burden interview (ZBI) and the styles of coping inventory (SCI). The study participants
were selected from the population by using an simple random sampling method. The data were given in the median and
interquartile range. Normal distribution fitness was done by Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk test. Mann-Whitney U
test, Kruskal Wallis test and Spearman Correlation coefficient were used in statistical analyzes where nonparametric tests were
appropriate.
Results: The average age of the caregivers was 49.95±13.68 and the majority were married and primary school graduates.
Caregivers are often the maternal patients. The study found that, when the social support-seeking behaviour of the caregivers
decreased, their care burden increased (p<0.05).
Conclusion: This study determined that caregivers experienced a high level of burden. In this study, the high load level of
care. However, while the deal with their difficulties of providing effective care (social support search and self-confident and
optimistic approaches) was found to have more coping methods they use.
Biography
Erman Yıldız has expertise in psychiatric nursing. Currently, PhD student in the psychiatric nursing continue. There is a 4-year clinical history. At present, there are
more than 8 years of history in the nursing profession. He is currently working as a research assistant at Inönü University Faculty of Health Sciences Psychiatric
Nursing Department.
Erman YILDIZ et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061