Abstract:
The purposes of this descriptive research were to study psychological distress in caregiver in schizophrenic patien and relationship between psychological distress caregiver in schizophrenia patient among, duration of illness, The associated between patients and caregiver, Knowledge in caring of a schizophrenic patient, Caregivers capabilities in caregiver of schizophrenic patients , Coping, Social support, Measuring the perceived severity of the disease, and the psychological distress of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Subjects were 145 caregivers of schizophrenia patients. In the Ministry of Public Health, 18. Were selected by random sampling technique. The research instruments were The Personal data Record, Knowledge in caring of a schizophrenic patient, Caregivers capabilities in caregiver of schizophrenic patients, Coping, Social support, Measuring the perceived severity of the disease, and the psychological stress of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia.All instruments were tested for content validity and reliability by 5 experts. The Cronbachs Alpha coefficient reliability of these in struments were .71, .91, .86, .93, .96 and .96 respectively. Statistic techniques use utilized in data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation. Point Biserial and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Major findings were as follows; 1.Psychological distress caregiver of schizophrenia patients was at sever level( = 2.55 ,SD = 0.28) 2. The associated between patients and caregiver was statistical significantly related to Psychological distress caregiver of schizophrenia patients 3. duration of illness, Measuring the perceived severity of the disease were statistical significantly related to Psychological distress caregiver of schizophrenia patients (r = 0.226 , 0.862) 4.Knowledge in caring of as chizophrenic patient, Caregivers capabilities in caregiver of schizophrenic patients , Coping, Social support were statistical significantly related to Psychological distress caregiver of schizophrenia patients (r = -0.634, -0.623, -0.753, -0.717 respectively)