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The relationship between psychiatric patients’ caregiver burden and anger expression styles

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  • Serap Yıldırım
  • Özge Akyüz
  • Esra Engin
  • Kadriye Gültekin

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Aims and objectives To examine the relationship between psychiatric patients’ caregiver burden and anger expression styles. Background In the caregiving process, when coping with problems, caregivers may exhibit emotional and behavioural responses, which can produce distressful results. One of these responses is angry. Examining the relationship between psychiatric patients’ caregiver burden and caregivers’ anger expression styles is necessary for quality of care. Design A descriptive and relational study. Methods The sample for study included 60 family caregivers who were stayed with patient in psychiatry clinic during the treatment of inpatient setting of a university hospital. Data for the study were collected using the Caregiver Burden Inventory and the Trait Anger and Anger Expression Scale. The analysis of variance, Mann–Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis and Pearson correlation analysis were used. Results The caregivers’ Caregiver Burden Inventory score was found to be 24.60 ± 1.57. Gender, working status, level of intimacy with patient, status of whether or not caregiver was living with patient and status of whether or not caregiver experienced difficulties in providing care had a significant effect on the Caregiver Burden Inventory scale as a whole, as well as its subscales. This study found a positive relationship between caregiver burden and caregivers’ anger expression styles (p

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  • Serap Yıldırım & Özge Akyüz & Esra Engin & Kadriye Gültekin, 2018. "The relationship between psychiatric patients’ caregiver burden and anger expression styles," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(3-4), pages 725-731, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:jocnur:v:27:y:2018:i:3-4:p:725-731
    DOI: 10.1111/jocn.14060
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