Lecturer, The Richmond Fellowship Post Graduate College for Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Bangalore.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2005 Jul;47(3):160-3. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.55941.
Support groups for families of persons with mental illness are emerging as significant components in psychosocial rehabilitation programmes.
To ascertain the expectations of family members who attend family support group meetings and to find out the efficacy of such programmes.
The data were collected from support group members using a semi-structured interview schedule. The study sample (n=20) was drawn from family members who attended the support group meetings regularly for a minimum period of 6 months. Data analysis was done using percentile.
Analysis of the data revealed that members attending the support group meetings expected to get more information about the illness, develop skills to cope with problems at home and learn skills to deal with the ill person. An important finding of the study was that the members developed a 'feeling of togetherness' as a result of being a member of a group with common aims.
Participation in a support group meeting positively affects key variables in the participant's adaptation to mental illness in a relative.
支持精神疾病患者家属的团体正在成为心理社会康复计划的重要组成部分。
确定参加家庭支持小组会议的家庭成员的期望,并了解这些计划的效果。
使用半结构化访谈表从支持小组成员那里收集数据。研究样本(n=20)来自那些至少连续参加支持小组会议 6 个月的家庭成员。使用百分位数进行数据分析。
数据分析显示,参加支持小组会议的成员希望获得更多关于疾病的信息,发展在家中应对问题的技能,并学习应对患者的技能。这项研究的一个重要发现是,成员由于是具有共同目标的团体的一员而产生了“归属感”。
参加支持小组会议会对参与者适应亲属的精神疾病的关键变量产生积极影响。