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Abstract
Mental illness refers to a disorder causing people to display abnormal
behavior more consistently than most people do. Living in the shadow of
chronic mental illness can have a huge emotional and psychological impact
on patients and their cargivers. Caregiving is a chronic stressor and different
coping methods are used to handle such a situation. This study aimed to
identify psychosocial problems and different coping methods of family
caregiver of chronic psychotic patients. The study setting was in the
psychiatric out patient clinics of EL-Mabrah health insurance hospital and
EL-Nasr general governmental hospital in Port Said city, on a total sample
of 106 family caregivers. Results revealed that, most of family caregivers of
chronic psychotic patient have psychological and social problems, this
problems are statistically significantly related to their age, sex, income and
kinship to the patient. Also the findings showed that cope with their
problems adaptivelly.