الفهرس 
Care-Giving in Psychiatric PracticeOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Both schizophrenia and mood disorders carries enormous medical, financial, educational, and social burdens for the affected person and his caregivers. Schizophrenia and mood disorders require continuous care. The quality of outcome and consequently the burden depends not only upon when the treatment has started but also total composite of management. Working with the caregivers forms an integral part of this management. Caregivers are motivated and capable of becoming data collectors to contribute to urgently-needed research on the burden of schizophrenia and mood disorders to help in the reduction of that burden. The number of variables present in the caregivers of patients with schizophrenia and mood disorders are numerous. There are many factors affecting the degree of burden experienced by the caregivers, as well as the occurrence of various psychiatric disorders among those caregivers. These factors are interlacing and related to each other in a complex manner, so it is difficult to say or predict that there is a single factor which is responsible for the burden experienced by those caregivers and for the occurrence of various psychiatric disorders among the caregivers. Also the burden which is experienced by the caregiver does not only depend on the illness of one of the family members or the person who receive the care but also it depend on many factors which may be present or absent in the person who provide this care.