Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2011 Mar;57(2):180-94. doi: 10.1177/0020764009347334. Epub 2010 Feb 16.
To explore the needs of caregivers of inpatients with schizophrenia in India.
Thirty caregivers of inpatients with schizophrenia participated in five focus group discussions (FGD), where the needs of the caregivers were discussed. The FGDs were recorded, transcribed and similar needs were grouped and ranked according to their order of importance.
The main needs that emerged were regarding: managing the behaviour of patients; managing social-vocational problems of patients; health issues of caregivers; education about schizophrenia; rehabilitation; and managing sexual and marital problems of patients.
This study has identified additional needs of caregivers from those found in other studies.
探索印度住院精神分裂症患者照顾者的需求。
30 名住院精神分裂症患者的照顾者参加了 5 次焦点小组讨论（FGD），讨论了照顾者的需求。FGD 被记录、转录，根据重要性顺序对相似的需求进行分组和排序。
出现的主要需求包括：管理患者的行为；管理患者的社会职业问题；照顾者的健康问题；关于精神分裂症的教育；康复；以及管理患者的性和婚姻问题。
这项研究从其他研究中发现了照顾者的其他需求。
