Krishna Leela, S (2016) A comparative study to assess the quality of life among care givers of patients with schizophrenia and mania in selected hospital at Tirunelveli. Masters thesis, Nehru Nursing College, Vallioor.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: 1. To assess the quality of life among care givers of patients with schizophrenia. 2. To assess the quality of life among care givers of patients with mania. 3. To compare the quality of life among care givers of patients with schizophrenia and mania. 4. To find association between quality of life among care givers of patients with selected demographic and clinical variables. HYPOTHESES: The hypothesis formulated for the present study are: H1: There is significant association between the Quality Of Life among care givers of patients with schizophrenia and mania in their selected demographic and clinical variables. Non experimental Descriptive Comparative design was adopted for this study. The conceptual framework for this study was based on Modified Wilson and Cleary Model (1995).The tool used for data collection was Modified WHO Adult Quality of life of care givers assessment scale to assess the Quality of life. Schizophrenia patients care givers and Mania patients care givers. The sample size of the study was selected purposively. Sample size of the study was 50 among which 25 samples were in Schizophrenia patients care givers and 25 samples were in Mania patients care givers. MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY: The mean and standard deviation score of quality of life of care givers of patient with Schizophrenia was 46.68± 12.03. The mean and standard deviation score of quality of life of care givers of patient with Mania was 60.08± 12.28. The mean difference was 13.40 and it was inferred that the quality of life of schizophrenia care givers was low comparing to mania care givers. There is no significant association between selected demographic variables life age, gender, religion, education, occupation, type of family, monthly income, marital status, relationship of the patient, residency and their Quality of life. There is no significant association between selected clinical variables like Duration of illness, No of hospitalization, Type of admission, Availability of support system and their Quality of life. CONCLUSION: The main conclusion drawn from this present study was that the quality of life among schizophrenia care givers was low comparing to the mania care givers. As the stress level of schizophrenia patients care givers were high, the researcher provided Counseling distributed and the pamphlets regarding stress management technique to relieve their stress level and improve their quality of life.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Additional Information: | (Reg.No.301431251) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | quality of life ; care givers of patients ; schizophrenia ; mania ; selected hospital ; Tirunelveli. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Psychiatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2018 14:43 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2018 14:43 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/10032 |
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