TY - JOUR
T1 - Informal caregiving in schizophrenia
T2 - correlates and predictors of perceived rewards
AU - Stanley, Selwyn
AU - Balakrishnan, Sujeetha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Taylor & Francis.
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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/5/4
Y1 - 2021/5/4
N2 - Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that has repercussions for the afflicted individual as well as the immediate family. While family caregiving entails enormous burden, it is also acknowledged that the experience may be perceived as being rewarding. This study seeks to understand key aspects of caregiving in terms of perceived rewards, the experience of hope, and the social support available to family caregivers. Standardized instruments to assess these variables were administered to primary caregivers of people with schizophrenia and a comparative group. It was seen that both hope, and perceived social support significantly predicted reward perception in the caregivers.
AB - Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that has repercussions for the afflicted individual as well as the immediate family. While family caregiving entails enormous burden, it is also acknowledged that the experience may be perceived as being rewarding. This study seeks to understand key aspects of caregiving in terms of perceived rewards, the experience of hope, and the social support available to family caregivers. Standardized instruments to assess these variables were administered to primary caregivers of people with schizophrenia and a comparative group. It was seen that both hope, and perceived social support significantly predicted reward perception in the caregivers.
KW - caregiver competence
KW - caregiving rewards
KW - Family caregiving
KW - hope in caregiving
KW - informal care
KW - mental illness
KW - schizophrenia
KW - social support
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U2 - https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NQEUN7FCCAGAJNAEDATM/full?target=10.1080/15332985.2021.1904089
DO - https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NQEUN7FCCAGAJNAEDATM/full?target=10.1080/15332985.2021.1904089
M3 - Article (journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85103390383
SN - 1533-2985
VL - 19
SP - 230
EP - 247
JO - Social Work in Mental Health
JF - Social Work in Mental Health
IS - 3
ER -