The experience of caregivers of people living with serious mental disorders: A study from rural Ghana

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ae Ngibise, Kenneth Ayuurebobi ^a   Doku, Victor Christian Korley ^b   Asante, Kwaku Poku ^a   Owusu Agyei, Seth ^a  

^a KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b King's College London   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burden; Kintampo; Mental disorders; Primary caregiver; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVER; ECONOMICS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930641693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.26957     Document Type: Article

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