Economic cost and quality of life of family caregivers of schizophrenic patients attending psychiatric hospitals in Ghana

• Hauptverfasser: Yaw Nyarko Opoku-Boateng (Verfasst von), Irene A. Kretchy (Verfasst von), Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey (Verfasst von), Duah Dwomoh (Verfasst von), Sybil Decker (Verfasst von), Samuel Agyei Agyemang (Verfasst von), Yesim Tozan (Verfasst von), Moses Aikins (Verfasst von), Justice Nonvignon (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Low and middle income countries face many challenges in meeting their populations' mental health care needs. Though family caregiving is crucial to the management of severe mental health disabilities, such as schizophrenia, the economic costs borne by family caregivers often...