Burden, rewards, and coping-the ups and downs of caregivers of people with mental illness

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 928-934

  Bauer, Rita ^a   Koepke, Franziska ^a   Sterzinger, Linda ^a   Spiessl, Hermann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b State Hospital Landshut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caregiver; caregiver burden; coping; psychiatric inpatient; reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNER STRENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATURITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; REWARD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF CONFIDENCE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CAREGIVERS; CHARACTER; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REWARD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84869806073     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31827189b1     Document Type: Article

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