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Depression and quality of life among caregivers of children with psychiatric disorders
Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry 13(2): 9–12 · 2022
https://doi.org/10.4038/sljpsyc.v13i2.8395
Abstract
Background: Providing care for children with mental health issues creates a huge burden on their primary caregivers and depression is recognized as one of the commonest mental health problems among caregivers of children who are unwell with psychiatric disorders. In addition, these caregivers have also been found to have a poor quality of life. Aims: To compare the level of depression and quality of life among caregivers of children with mental and behavioural disorders with age and sex-matched controls and to describe the psychiatric disorders in children which are associated with depression and reduced quality of life in their caregivers. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at the child psychiatry clinic of the Teaching Hospital Peradeniya. The study population included primary caregivers of children aged less than 18 years with mental and behavioural disorders who attended the above clinic. The control group was obtained from age and sex-matched primary caregivers of school children without any psychiatric diagnosis in the same area. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) score and the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment scores were used to determine the level of depression and quality of life, respectively. Results: We recruited 54 cases and 53 controls. The prevalence of depression was significantly higher in the cases when compared with the controls (P
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