Minimizing Burdens and Enhancing Quality of Life Among Family Caregivers of Patients with Substance Misuse Disorders | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 36, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 502-516 PDF (228.61 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.219054 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Neamat Mohamed Ali; Hoda Sayed Mohamed | ||
| Lecturer of psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Substance misuse disorder is a chronic relapsing disorder that affects the patients and their family caregivers and management. It is associated with severe burdens in caring that decrease quality of life. Aim: This study aimed to minimize burdens and enhance the quality of life among family caregivers of patients with substance misuse disorders. Design: A quasi-experimental (single group pre/posttest) design included 128 caregivers who attend with their patients with substance misuse disorders during follow-up visits to the addiction outpatient clinic, Psychiatry center. It is affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospitals. Tools for data collection: 1) Caregiver’s Interviewing Questionnaire, 2) Family Burden Interview Schedule (FBIS), 3) World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire. Results: There was a highly statistically significant relation regarding minimizing burdens among family caregivers of patients with substance misuse disorder, in post phase p < 0.001 as compared to the pre-program implementation phase including financial burden, disruption of routine family activities, disruption of family leisure, disruption of family interactions, effect on the physical and mental health of caregivers. Moreover, there were statistically significant positive correlations between types of burdens and quality of life domains mean score pre-and post-program implementation among family caregivers of patients with substance misuse disorder under study. Conclusions: burdens among family caregivers of patients with substance misuse disorder have been minimized post-program implementation as compared to the pre-program. Furthermore, minimizing burdens improved the quality-of-life domains post program implementation among family caregivers of patients with substance misuse disorder under study. Recommendations: Designing and Implementing psychiatric nursing intervention programs for family caregivers of patients with substance misuse disorder in private and other governmental hospitals, in rural as well as urban communities to improve their quality of life. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Substance misuse disorders; Quality of Life; Caregivers; Burdens | ||
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