An Investigation into the Psychosocial Issues of Male Mental Health Patients' Caregivers at St John of God Psychiatric Ward

Author(s): Faith T. Maliseni and Dr. AP Senthil Kumar

Abstract:

A recent study concluded that caregiving was associated with distress, anxiety, stress and depression. Between 40 to 70 percent of caregivers suffer from depression which may also cause symptoms such as anger and irritability. However, a comprehensive study on the psychosocial issues caregiver’s faces when dealing with male patients has not been conducted. The main objective of this study is to investigate the psychosocial issues that male mental health patients' caregivers face at St John of God and the specific objectives include looking into the services, strategies used by caregivers as well as the challenges they face. Thus, the research will try to answer the hypothesis that there is no relationship between the age of the respondents and stress level. The other hypothesis that this research will look into is that there is no strong relationship between income level and anxiety level. Thus, this study used Explanatory research design and the sampling technique that was used in this study is probability, simple random sampling. The findings of this study indicate that most caregivers face a lot stress and anxiety regardless of their age and that the income of the caregivers does not determine how much stress they will experience. In conclusion, the study has found out that most caregivers face anxiety, stress, financial and relationship problems.

Keywords: Psychosocial, Mental Health, Patient, Caregivers, Psychiatric.

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