Health beliefs and carer burden in first episode psychosis

BMC Psychiatry

Rachel Upthegrove²  Philip Rankin¹  Carl R Krynicki¹  Rajan Chawla²  Maya Patel¹ 

[1]College of Medical and Dental Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

[2]Birmingham Early Intervention Service, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, Unit 1, B1, 50 Summer Hill Road, Birmingham B1 3RB, UK

关键词: Ethnicity;    Illness appraisal;    Locus of control;    Carer burden;    First episode psychosis;   

Others  :  1123520
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-244X-14-171

 received in 2013-12-17, accepted in 2014-06-05,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Carer burden is high during First Episode Psychosis (FEP) and evidence suggests that this is a predictor of poor long-term outcome. However our understanding of factors associated with higher burden is poor. We propose that carers’ cultural backgrounds and health belief models will influence their perceived burden of care, over and above that explained by severity of illness.

Methods

Patients with FEP and their primary Carers were recruited from the Early Intervention Service. Patients and Carers completed a range of validated measures, self-report ethnicity and demographic information together with the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control and Caregiver Burden Inventory.

Results

Significant correlations were found between carer burden and health beliefs, which differed by ethnicity and gender. High physical burden was experienced by Black carers with an external locus of control; time restrictions and emotional burden correlated with an external locus of control in Asian carers. For White carers, external locus of control correlated with time dependence burden. In all ethnic groups female carers experienced more time dependency, physical and developmental burden. No significant correlations were found between patient measures of severity or duration of illness and carer burden.

Conclusions

The type of burden experienced by carers differed between gender and ethnicity and was related to their health belief models. Thus the explanation and understanding of illness appears to be more salient than simply a patient’s severity of illness when considering the development of carer burden. Interventions to tackle high carer burden, and thus expressed emotion to improve outcome in patients, may need increasing focus here.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Patel et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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