The relationship between family resiliency factors and caregiver-perceived duration of untreated psychosis in persons with first-episode psychosis
| Autor: | Maria E. Aguilar-Vafaie, Peyman Rezaiemaram, Hadi Motamedi, Abaas Tavallaie, Mojtaba Azimian, Hashem Shemshadi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Stress management medicine.medical_specialty Psychosis Time Factors Iran Interviews as Topic Social support Surveys and Questionnaires Intervention (counseling) Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Psychiatry Association (psychology) Qualitative Research Biological Psychiatry Family Health Social Support Extended family Middle Aged Resilience Psychological medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Early Diagnosis Caregivers Psychotic Disorders Socioeconomic Factors Scale (social sciences) dup Regression Analysis Female Perception Psychology Social Adjustment Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry Research. 219:497-505 |
| ISSN: | 0165-1781 |
| Popis: | Although the family has an important role in the early detection and intervention of first-episode psychosis (FEP), there are few findings reporting associations between family strengths and early treatment-seeking experiences. This study aimed to investigate, within the framework of the resiliency model of family stress, adjustment, and adaptation, the association between family coping strategies, resource management factors and duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) in Iranian families with one adult child with FEP. Hundred and seven individuals referred to three medical centers in Tehran and diagnosed with FEP participated in this study. Caregiver-perceived DUP was measured via semi-structured interviews administered to primary caregivers. They also completed two questionnaires regarding family resources of stress management and family coping strategies. Data analysis indicated that the Family Inventory of Resources of Management (FIRM) total scale score did not significantly explain the variance of caregiver-perceived DUP, but one of the FIRM subscales, the Extended Family Social Support, and the Family Crisis-Oriented Personal Evaluation scale (F-COPES) total score and one its subscales, the Acquiring Social Support, explained a significant amount of the variance of caregiver-perceived DUP. The results suggest that higher family resiliency, especially social support, facilitates the family's appropriate adaptive reaction (i.e., treatment-seeking), with the consequent decrease of DUP. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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