Effect of Psychosocial Nursing Intervention on Expressed Emotions and Responses to the Patient Illness among Family Caregivers of Patients with Bipolar Disorder | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 107, Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 1646-1660 PDF (659.98 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.217545 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Rania. A. Zaki1; Hanaa Ezz El-Din Prince2 | ||
| 1Assistant Professor,Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University | ||
| 2lecturer of (Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University). | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Bipolar disorder is a lifelong illness that disrupts the patient's life and familial equilibrium that makes the role of caregivers very demanding and distressing, especially when the caregivers have not received enough information, and support. Expressed emotion (EE) refers to the quality of the family environment reflected in the comments, attitudes and communication style that can seriously affect the lives of patients and their families. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effect of psychosocial nursing intervention on expressed emotion and response to the patient illness among family caregivers of patients with bipolar disorder. Research design: A quasi-experimental designed on one group pre/post assessment was utilized on (40) family caregivers' of patients with bipolar disorder, at outpatient clinics in Al- Abassia Mental Health Hospital. . Tools of data collection: The data was collected using an Interviewing questionnaire to assess the Demographic data of family caregivers and their patients with bipolar disorder, The expressed emotions scale EES and Family Interview questionnaire. This questionnaire was applied before and after the psychosocial nursing intervention. Results: The current study revealed that: there were highly statistically significant differences between before and after application of the psychosocial nursing intervention program regarding to family caregivers' level of expressed emotion and family care givers response to the patient illness. Conclusion: The study concluded that, this reduction in caregivers’ expressed emotions and enhancement caregivers’ response to patient illness justified the research hypothesis and reflected the positive effect of the psychosocial nursing intervention program. Recommendation: Development of psycho-educational supportive program for family caregivers of patients with BD to reduce their levels of expressed emotion. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| bipolar disorder - Caregivers' expressed emotion-- family response; psychosocial nursing intervention | ||
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