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Comparative study of caregiver stress between patients of obsessive compulsive disorder and chronic medical illness, without any physical disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

G. Gupta  and
S. Nagendran
G. Gupta*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Teerthanker Mahaveer Medical College And Research Centre, Moradabad, India
S. Nagendran
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Teerthanker mahaveer medical College and research centre, Moradabad, India
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disabling condition that affects the quality of life of both the patient and the caregivers. Similarly, in patients with physical medical illness, caregivers face a significant amount of stress.

Objectives

This study aimed to assess and compare the caregiver strain index between patients of OCD and medical illness. Moreover, this study will also compare the care giver strain index in the patients of OCD and physical medical illness depending on the severity and duration of the illness.

Methods

Study was done at Department of psychiatry, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad. In this Cross-sectional study 2 groups of caregivers were included. The group 1 included 30 caregivers of obsessive compulsive disorder patients and group 2 included 30 caregivers for physical medical illness. The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale was used for measuring the severity of OCD and the stress in caregivers were drawn from Caregiver strain index.

Results

This study reported a high objective burden among caregivers of OCD compared with the physical medical illness (P-value=0.002). The age of the caregivers also showed to be significantly associated with the stress in both the groups. The severity of the OCD was shown to be correlated well with the stress of the caregivers (P-value=0.032). In contrast, in physical medical illness the duration of the disease showed no significant association with the caregiver’s stress.

Conclusions

This study showed that in patients with OCD caregivers face a higher strain compared with the physical medical illness.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

obsessive compulsive disorderphysical medical illnessYale-brown obsessive compulsive scalecaregiver strain index
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S742 - S743
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