@article{ajnr2020865,
author={{Elsherif, Zebeda Abdelgwad and Behilak, Sahar and Abdelraof, Ayat Saif Elyazal},
title={The Relationship of Relatives¡¯ Illness Perception, Expressed Emotion and Their Burden in Caring for Patients with Schizophrenia},
journal={American Journal of Nursing Research},
volume={8},
number={6},
pages={624--631},
year={2020},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajnr/8/6/5},
issn={2378-5586},
abstract={<i><b>Background</b></i><i>:</i> The chronic burden of care to a patient with schizophrenia which produce negative emotions. As a result of de-institutionalization, caregivers have greater burden for the care of their mentally ill relatives. <i><b>Objective</b></i> of this study was to explore the relationship of relatives¡¯ illness perception, expressed emotion and their burden in caring for patients with schizophrenia.<i><b> Design: </b></i>This study followed a correlation descriptive research design. <i><b>Setting:</b></i> This study conducted at inpatient and outpatient psychiatric department of Tanta University Hospital. <i><b>Subject: </b></i>The study subjects consist of 100 relatives of patient with schizophrenia. <i><b>Tools</b></i>:<b> Tool 1 consisted of 2 parts: Part 1</b> Socio-demographic and general characteristics of studied participants,<b> Part 2 </b><b>Illness Perception Questionnaire-Schizophrenia Carers Version (IPQ-SCV),</b><b> Tool 2 Family Questionnaire (FQ), Tool 3 Caregiver Burden Interview. </b><i><b>Results</b></i><b>:</b> it was found that the studied participants had poor illness perception total score, it was found that the studied subjects (47%) had high emotional over- involvement level while it was observed that the two thirds of the studied relatives (61%) had high level of family criticism. majority of studied participants had moderate level of family burden. <i><b>Conclusion</b></i>: The results concluded that there was a significant positive correlation between family illness perception and family expressed emotion, also there was a significant positive correlation between family emotional expression and family burden level. <i><b>Recommendations</b></i><b>:</b> this study recommended future studies to investigate distress and burden among caregivers with high emotion expression for intervention, reducing family stress and burden.},
doi={10.12691/ajnr-8-6-5}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}