Ph.D., Director, Schizophrenia Research Foundation, Plot R/7A, West Main Road, Anna Nagar (West Extn.), Chennai - 600 101.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1998 Jan;40(1):21-9.
The family is a major source of support for the mentally ill in India. Although Indian families show tremendous resilience in caring for their ill relatives, they experience a lot of physical and emotional distress. The burden assessment schedule (BAS) aims to assess both objective and subjective burden experienced by the primary care givers of chronic mentally ill patients. Stepwise ethnographic exploration has been used in the development of this 40 item instrument. Reliability exercises have been carried out throughout the development of this schedule. Criterion validity has been established by comparing with another standardized instrument to assess burden, which has been developed in India.
家庭是印度精神病患者的主要支持来源。尽管印度家庭在照顾患病亲属方面表现出了巨大的适应能力，但他们也经历了很多身体和情感上的痛苦。负担评估量表（BAS）旨在评估慢性精神病患者主要照顾者所经历的客观和主观负担。在开发这个 40 项工具的过程中，采用了逐步的人种学探索。在开发过程中，进行了可靠性测试。通过与另一种在印度开发的用于评估负担的标准化工具进行比较，确定了其标准有效性。
