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- Title
The effect of post-clearance care of patients with acute psychological diseases on caregiver burn out in Qods Hospital in Sanandaj.
- Abstract
Introduction and background: caregivers of patients with psychological diseases are in fact the backbone of health and treatment services; they, actually, can be considered as patients themselves because their commitment and obligation to take care of a patient in the family can lead to psychological deterioration. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of post-clearance care (home visit) of acute psychological patients on caregiver burn out in Qods hospital in Sanandaj. Materials and Methods: The present pre-test and post-test study with a control group was conducted on 72 individuals, in two groups of case and control each with 36 subjects, who took care of psychiatric patients discharged from Sanandaj Psychiatric Hospital in 2016. The case group included patients who had received home visit after discharge, but the control group received only normal post-discharge services; collected data has been presented using descriptive-analytic indexes. Findings: The results of the present study showed that the majority of caregivers (95.8%) suffer from moderate to severe burnout after hospital discharge. Using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the scores of the two groups in the pre-test indicated the hypothesis of the normalization of the data (p = 0.55). Also, the significance level in the covariance test (p = 0/000) indicated the effectiveness of the intervention during post-test phase. Conclusion: The majority of caregivers of patients with severe psychological diseases in our study turned out to suffer from moderate burnout, which seems to be higher than other similar studies; this inconsistency can be due to differences in the studied population, cultural differences and regional specific conditions, as well as the type of questionnaire used in the study. However, despite the mentioned points, consistent with other similar domestic and external studies, home visit turned out to have a significant effect on reducing the burnout of caregivers after one year of intervention.
- Subjects
SANANDAJ (Iran); ACUTE diseases; MENTAL health services; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; PATIENT-family relations; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Progress in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 2018, p171
- ISSN
1735-8639
- Publication type
Article