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Needs of Family Caregivers of Schizophrenia Patients
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
Abstract
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What do carers of schizophrenia patients need during first contact with psychiatric services?
Objective
The aim of the present study was to analyse the problems and needs for interventions among caregivers of patients with schizophrenia who were the first time in contact with psychiatric services.
Methods
93 family caregivers of schizophrenia patients and 93 schizophrenia patients were investigated during the first contact with psychiatric services. The ‘Carer’s Needs Assessment for Schizophrenia” (CNA-S) and PANNS were used for investigation.
Results
The most frequent problems of caregivers of first contact patients with schizophrenia were insufficient information on psychiatric disorder and concerns about the patient’s future. Further, the intervention ‘individual psychoeducation” was needed significantly more often among caregivers of first contact patients than among those having been previously in contact with psychiatric services.
Conclusion
Carers being the first time in contact with psychiatric services need some specific interventions significantly more often than later.
- Type
- Article: 0095
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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