Caring Chronic Schizophrenic Patients with Community Participation on Caregiver s’ Burden of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients in Community
Keywords:
caregiver burden, community participation, caregivers of chronic schizophrenic patients, chronic schizophrenic patients in communityAbstract
Schizophrenia is a chronic disease where patients often have problems with family relationships, losing their roles and burdens to caregivers. The care burden of caregivers of chronic schizophrenia patients is a problem that affects both caregivers and patients. The purposes of this two-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research were to compare the burden of care of caregivers of schizophrenic patients before and after receiving the care of chronic schizophrenic patients with community participation on caregivers’ burden of chronic schizophrenic patients in a community program and the burden of caregivers of schizophrenic patients who received the care of chronic schizophrenic patients with a community participation program and those who received regular nursing care. Research samples were from twenty caregivers of schizophrenic patients who attended schizophrenic patients and community teams, together with the community health team and Subdistrict Administrative Organization. The experimental group received the care of chronic schizophrenic patients with a community participation program composed of four activities to decrease two dimensions of the caregivers’ burden: subjective burden and objective burden. The control group received regular nursing care. The research instruments were: (1) the caring for chronic schizophrenic patients with community participation program; and (2) the caregiver burden scale. The t-test was used for data analysis. Major findings were as follows: (1) The burden of caregivers of schizophrenic patients was significantly lower at the.05 level after reviving chronic schizophrenic patient care with a community participation program. (2) Caregivers caring for chronic schizophrenic patients through a community participation program had a significantly lower burden of care than caregivers receiving regular nursing care at the.05 level. The research results suggest that caring for chronic schizophrenic patients with community participation can relieve the burden of caregivers. Therefore, this program should be applied to another patient group with other chronic diseases based on the nurses’ consideration.
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