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| Informal care and psychiatric morbidity | | Author(s) | Stephen Horsley, Steve Barrow, Nick Gent |
| Journal title | Journal of Public Health Medicine, vol 20, no 2, June 1998 |
| Pages | pp 180-186 |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Informal care ; Social surveys ; Lancaster. |
| Annotation | This study involved a comparison of carers and non-carers in a mixed urban and rural community (Morecambe Bay Health Authority), with the aim of examining and quantifying the relationship between psychiatric morbidity and the provision of informal care in the community. Data were collected by postal survey for 4,500 adults; 10.9% of respondents were identified as carers. Subjects were selected by quasi-random methods from Family Health Services Authority (FHSA) registers. Potential psychiatric morbidity was defined as three or more symptoms on a standardised measure, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ: 12-item version). The prevalence of morbidity was significantly higher in people who care for others in their own homes, even after adjustment for other known risk factors for psychiatric morbidity (odds ratio 1.51, 95% confidence interval 1.11-2.05). In contrast, there was no significant relationship between morbidity and care outside the home in these data. The study concludes that Health Authorities need to review support for carers, and to consider ways to improve monitoring. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980813005 A |
| Classmark | E: P6: 3F: 8LA |
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