Women With Schizophrenia And Broken Marriages-Doubly Disadvantaged?Part 1 Family Perspective  

Oleh:

Thara, R. ; Kamath, Shanta ; Kumar, Shuba

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Relations vol. 49 no. 3 (Sep. 2003), page 233-240.
Topik: broken marriages; burden of familes; children; schizophrenia; women
Fulltext: 233.IR49.3.pdf (478.52KB)

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Women with schizophrenia and broken marriages in India are disable and stigmatised not only by the illness, but by social attitudes to marital separation and divorce.We interviewed caregivers of 75 such women attending mental health facilities in Chennai in a attempt to understands their perceptions, attitudes and concern about the future of their wards. Burden on the family was assesed using the Burden Assesment Schedule developed by us. Most families expressed intense distressed and were especially concerned about the long-term future ang security of these women. Care of the children of these women was an additional problem, in the fact of total lack of any financial support from the husbands.The various sociocultual factors modulating the scene are also discussed.

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