Family burden, family health and personal mental health

BMC Public Health

Brendan P Bunting¹  Edel Ennis¹ 

[1] School of Psychology, University of Ulster, Northland Rd., L’Derry, Northern Ireland BT48 7JL, UK

关键词: Family burden;    Mental health;   

Others  :  1162425
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-255

 received in 2012-02-18, accepted in 2012-12-22,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

The economic and moral implications of family burden are well recognised. What is less understood is whether or how family health and family burden relate to personal mental health. This study examines family health and perceived family burden as predictors of personal mental health, taking personal and sociodemographic factors into consideration.

Methods

Data used was from the National Comorbidity Study Replication (NCS-R), namely the random 30% of participants (N = 3192) to whom the family burden interview was administered. Measures of family burden and mental health were considered for analysis.

Results

Binary logistic regressions were used as means of analyses. Perception of family burden was associated with an increased vulnerability to personal mental health problems, as was the presence of mental health difficulties within the family health profile. Which member of the family (kinship) was ill bore no relation to prediction of personal mental health. Personal and socio-demographic factors of sex, age, marital status, education and household income were all predictive of increased vulnerability to mental health problems over the last 12 months.

Conclusions

Certain elements of family health profile and its perceived burden on the individuals themselves appears related to risk of personal incidence of mental health problems within the individuals themselves. For moral and economic reasons, further research to understand the dynamics of these relationships is essential to aid developing initiatives to protect and support the mental health and wellbeing of relatives of ill individuals.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Ennis and Bunting.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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