Relationship of family caregiver burden with quality of care and psychopathology in a sample of Arab subjects with schizophrenia

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zahid, Muhammad A ^a   Ohaeri, Jude U ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Psychological Medicine Hospital Kuwait   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARAB; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATION; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ARABS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 77956457337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-71     Document Type: Article

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