669 – Social & Financial Burden of Schizophrenic Patients in Iraq

Abstract

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Study achieved for one year during 2011 on 83 patients visiting Hospital and private clinic regularly with their families in order to evaluate the social and financial burden experienced by their families, all patients diagnosed as chronic schizophrenic with positive and negative symptoms, living with and closely followed -up by their families.

Semistructured questionnaire prepared to the families to find the types and degree of social and financial burden, correlation between severity of symptoms and burden of care, effect of social stigmatization on their families.

Results:

88% of the families complained of high rate of different types of social burden mostly families of patients with negative symptoms, 50% complained of financial burden, 90% of the families felt stigmatized.

Reference:

Raj L., Kulhara P, Avasthi A, Social burden of positive and negative schizophrenia, Int. J. Soc. Psychiatry, 1991 Winter,37(4),242-50.

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