Michèle Déry, Mélanie Lapalme, Jadzia Jagiellowicz, Martine Poirier, Caroline Temcheff, Jean Toupin
Predicting Depression and Anxiety from Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms in Elementary School-Age Girls and Boys with Conduct Problems
Child psychiatry and human development
severe mental illness negative consequences person suffering also caregivers quality life community reside impacts could particularly visible low middleincome countries treatment gap mental illnesses particularly high dearth evidence ethiopia study aims assess quality life associated factors among caregivers patients severe mental illness felege hiwot tibebe ghion compressive specialized hospital bahir dar northwest ethiopia 2022 institutionbased crosssectional study design conducted felege hiwot tibebe ghion compressive specialized hospitals 13 june 13 july 2022 systematic random sample technique utilized select 469 study participants world health organization quality lifebref questionnaire utilized assess quality life perceived stigma measured family interview schedule questionnaire data gathered using epicollect5 software facetoface interview method exported spss25 simple multiple linear regression analyses conducted identify associated factors quality life variables statistically significant pvalue 005 bcoefficients 95 ci descriptive statistics used describe outcome predictor variables total 456 respondents participated response rate 972 result showed mean qualityoflife score caregivers patients severe mental illness domain mean standard deviations 465 187 512 199 worst score zero environmental domain 94 social domain multiple regression living rural area b 52 95 ci 89 18 illiterate b 72 95 ci 106 37 chronic medical illness b 52 95 ci 86 17 probable cases anxiety b 69 95 ci 105 133 probable cases depression b 49 95 ci 82 17 presence perceived stigma b 79 95 ci 112 477 significantly associated overall quality life analysis suggests identified factors predict 40 variability overall quality life scores caregivers quality life caregivers patients severe mental illness found low living rural area illiterate chronic medical illnesses probable cases anxiety depression stigmatized negatively associated overall quality life findings indicate necessity health professionals government concerned bodies pay attention caregivers quality life