Belitung Nursing Journal
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016): January - February

BURDEN OF FAMILY CAREGIVER

Faida Annisa (Department of Psychiatric Health Nursing, Kerta Cendekia Nursing Academy, East Java, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Feb 2016

Abstract

Shifting from hospital-based care to community-based care involves the family as advanced caregivers to the patients with schizophrenia at their home. Yet, they have need of knowledge and skill in caring the patients as well as support from health care providers and society. Family caregivers should be well-prepared to take care the patients with schizophrenia at home since it gets some negative consequences on their physical, psychological, social, and financial. Nurse needs to assess the factors that might influence the family caregivers to feel burden, and include the family caregivers into nursing care in which would not only to improve the patients’ mental health but also the family caregivers.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

bnj

Publisher

Subject

Nursing

Description

BNJ contributes to the advancement of evidence-based nursing, midwifery and healthcare by disseminating high quality research and scholarship of contemporary relevance and with potential to advance knowledge for practice, education, management or policy. BNJ welcomes submissions of evidence-based ...