Open AccessFamily psychoeducation with caregivers of schizophrenia patients: Impact on perceived quality of life
Author(s) -
Pankaj Verma,
Tejvir Singh Walia,
Suprakash Chaudhury,
Smiti Srivastava
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_2_19
Subject(s) - psychoeducation , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , intervention (counseling) , mental illness , quality of life (healthcare) , family caregivers , population , psychiatry , medicine , clinical psychology , psychology , mental health , gerontology , nursing , environmental health
Schizophrenia is a devastating and chronic mental illness. Considering the nature of illness along with routine psychiatric care, various supportive therapies are recommended. Family psychoeducational approach has been developed to increase patients' as well as their caregivers' knowledge and insight into their illness. It is postulated that this increased knowledge and insight will enable people with schizophrenia and their caregivers to cope in a more effective way with the consequences of their illness, thereby improving prognosis.