Burden Experienced by Family Caregivers of Patients with Mental Disorders

Abstract

Family caregivers are regarded as backbones of the health care system. This descriptive-analytic research was carried out on a randomized sample of 125 family caregiver in Zahedan Mental Health Center. The data was collected using the Zarit Burden Inventory (ZBI; Zarit, Todd, and Zarit, 1986). 73.6% of family caregivers in this study experienced a moderate to severe level of burden. The study concludes that, professional interventions should be offered especially to those caregivers of patients with mental disorders who experienced moderate to severe level of burden.