International Journal of Mental Health & PsychiatryISSN: 2471-4372

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Olutayo Aloba Author

Subjects of specialization
Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10 item; Nigerian family caregivers; Psychiatric patients; Reliability; Validity; Factor structure

Affiliation
Department of Mental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

Biography

Olutayo Aloba belongs to Department of Mental Health and his araes of interests are Quantitative Data Analysis Statistical Analysis Data Analysis Quantitative Methodology Measurement Research Methodology Survey Methodology and Data Analysis and his one of the publication is Wellbeing during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic among adults in Nigeria: Associations with psychosocial and pandemic-related factors


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Exploration of the Psychometric Properties and Correlates of the 10 item Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale among Family Caregivers of Nigerian Patients with Psychiatric Disorder

Author(s):

Olutayo Aloba, Olayinka Ajao, Sanmi Akinsulore, Boladale Mapayi, Taiwo Alimi, Olufemi Esan

Background: Despite studies in developed countries repeatedly reporting on the positive influence of resilience on the ability of family caregivers to withstand the burden of providing care for their relatives no literature is currently available regarding the construct and the factors associated with resilience among the family caregivers of Nigerian psychiatric patients.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study in which 234 family caregiver-patient dyads were consecutively recruited over a period of 6 months from the psychiatric outpatients’ clinics of two university tea... view moreĀ»

DOI: 10.4172/2471-4372.1000124

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