Family care givers and their coping patterns with an addict family member

Today substance abuse disorders are major health and social problems in Egypt. It is an addictive behavior affecting people of all socioeconomic classes, age groups, races and gender. It may lead to many problems such as bad social adaptation, decreasing productivity at work or dismissing from job. The aim of the study was to explore, coping patterns of family care givers [FCGS] with addict family members [AFMS]. The subject consisted of 120 AFMS, they were selected provided that accompanied with their FCGS. The sample was selected from the two settings namely Abbassia Mental Hospital affiliated to Ministry of Health and the Psychiatric Medical Center affiliated to Ministry of Higher Education, Ain Shams University. A descriptive analytical research design was used in this study. Two tools were used for data collection. l] An Interviewing Questionnaire developed by researcher was used to asses sociodemographic characteristics of the FCGS .2] A coping pattern scale was used to asses adaptation and maladaptation level of the FCGs toward AFMS. The results indicated that 33.3% of the FCGs had adaptive behaviors with AFMS, while 66.7% of them had maladaptive behaviors. There were highly statistically significant correlation between FCGS' age X[2]=13.828,, educational level X[2]=15.737 and coping pattern with their AFMs at P<0.001 and no significant correlation between social status X[2]=1.949, residential area X[2]=3.4, kin relationship X[2]=1.967 of the FCG5 and their coping pattern with their AFMs at P>0.001. Institutions of Health Services should provide FCGs with different health education programs to follow caring role and responsibility toward their AFMS and avoid the occurrence of relapse. Institutions of Health Services also should implement further researches to determine barriers challenges that negatively affect the FCGs coping patterns with the AFMS

Burden level associated with practices of alzheimer patients' family caregiver

Behind every Alzheimer Patient there is hidden victim called Family Caregiver. [1] Assess practices of family caregiver to wardAlzheimer Patient.; and [2] Assess burden level of family caregiver regarding care provided to Alzheimer Patient. descriptive. The study was conducted at The Out- Patient Memory Clinic in Ain-Shams Psychiatric Mental Health Centre and The Out -Patient. Memory Clinic in Abbassia Mental Health Hospital A purposive sample of 165 Alzheimer Patient accompanied by 165 Family caregiver Tool: Three tools were used for data collection ;the first tool was Socio-demographic data sheet for Alzheimer Patient. ,include age, sex ,marital status, educational level, current occupation duration of the disease;[b].Socio-demographic data sheet for family caregiver include age, sex ,marital status, educational level, current occupation., Kinrelationship family size ,income and sources of treatment Expanses; [c].Knowledge of family caregiver regarding the Alzheimer disease such as definition, age of occurrence, classification of the disease, warning sing and symptoms and categorization of the disease in Egypt and [d].Caregiven activities checklist and e. Caregiver Burden Scale The study concluded that:[l] 49.1%Family caregiver knowledge about the disease had satisfactory ;40.7% of Family caregiver's with satisfactory level of knowledge provided acceptable care ;[2]. 50.0% family caregiver with mild burden experiences provided care to Alzheimer Patient with insignificant level. The level of care provided to Alzheimer patient was insignificantly affected by family caregiver knowledge level. Also, burden level of the Family caregiver hadn't affected the care provided. Hence, it was train health care personal to provided consulling to Family Caregiver about coping with burden resulting from care; design hot line to exchange caregiver's experiences about care of Alzheimer Patient; study different aspect of Alzheimer disease care