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  • Experience of caregiving: relatives of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis

  • Lakshika Tennakoon, Dominic Fannon, Victor Doku, Seamus O'Ceallaigh, William Soni, Mar Santamaria, Elizabeth Kuipers, Tonmoy Sharma
  • Journal:
    The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 177 / Issue 6 / December 2000
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 529-533
    Print publication:
    December 2000
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  • Background

    There has been relatively little research on caregivers of people experiencing their first episode of psychosis.

    Aims

    To investigate dimensions of caregiving and morbidity in caregivers of people with first-episode psychosis.

    Method

    Caregivers of 40 people with first-episode psychosis were interviewed at home about their experience of caregiving, coping strategies and distress.

    Results

    Caregivers used emotional and practical strategies to cope with participants' negative symptoms and difficult behaviours and experienced more worry about these problems. They increased supervision when the participants displayed difficult behaviours. Twelve per cent of caregivers were suffering from psychiatric morbidity as defined by the General Health Questionnaire. Those living with the participant had more frequent visits to their general practitioner.

    Conclusions

    At first-episode psychosis, caregivers are already having to cope with a wide range of problems and are developing coping strategies. Caregivers worried most about difficult behaviours and negative symptoms in participants.