Self-Reported Burden Among Informal Caregivers of Patients Receiving Psychiatric Hospital Treatment: A National Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT: Involving informal caregivers in the support of patients receiving psychiatric treatment has a positive effect on the patient's treatment outcome. At the same time, providing care for these patients may pose a serious burden on the caregivers themselves. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with a high caregiver burden using a cross-sectional study design and to determine areas of perceived burden in a thematic analysis based on information from the Danish National Survey of Psychiatric Patient Experiences. Results showed that 54.3% of caregivers reported a high caregiver burden, and the associated factors were: being a parental caregiver for outpatients (adjusted OR: 1.80, 95% CI: 1.17-2.76) as well as inpatients (adjusted OR: 3.81, 95% CI: 1.97-10.51) and diagnosis am

SUBMITTER: Thygesen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12605679 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature