Open AccessDevelopment of the caregivers attitude scale on home care of schizophrenics (CASHS)
Author(s) -
N. Balasubramanian,
TS Sathyanarayana Rao,
Juliana Linnette D'Sa
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.124716
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , psychology , clinical psychology , nonprobability sampling , content validity , scale (ratio) , likert scale , reliability (semiconductor) , feeling , social psychology , psychometrics , developmental psychology , medicine , population , power (physics) , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that elicits feelings of strangeness and discomfort, which may create stigma and lead to the social exclusion of the mentally ill and of the people relating with them. In the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of research studies on attitudes toward mental disorders.