Taiwo Alimi Author
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Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10 item; Nigerian family caregivers; Psychiatric patients; Reliability; Validity; Factor structure
Department of Mental Health, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
Taiwo Alimi BELONGS TO Department of Mental Health, AND HIS AREAS OF INTEREST ARE Psychopathology AND HIS ONE OF THE publication The distribution and pattern of neurological disease in a neurology clinic in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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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»