Coping styles in carers of people with recent and long-term psychosis

Onwumere, Juliana, Kuipers, Elizabeth, Bebbington, Paul, Dunn, Graham, Freeman, Daniel, Fowler, David and Garety, Philippa (2011) Coping styles in carers of people with recent and long-term psychosis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199 (6). pp. 423-424. ISSN 0022-3018

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Abstract

Avoidant coping is associated with distress in carers of people with psychosis. We hypothesized that this form of coping would abate as carers adapt their coping strategies in the course of the illness. One hundred and forty-one carers of two groups of patients, with recent onset and longer established psychosis, respectively, completed self-report measures of coping and general distress. We found that avoidant coping strategies were associated with carer distress but not with duration of illness. These results argue the need for interventions to reduce the carers' reliance on maladaptive (avoidant) strategies at any stage of the illness.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Psychological Sciences (former - to 2018)
Depositing User:	Users 2731 not found.
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2012 14:47
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2023 12:32
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/35974
DOI:	10.1097/NMD.0b013e31821ccb07

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