Psychological Characteristics of Relatives of Persons with Severe Mental Disorders

According to statistics, every year there has been an increase amount of patients gaining mental illnesses, and around 80% of them consist in families, which is why their sociological functioning and their quality of life improvement are the critical areas for the government to be more concentrated on. One of the family members containing a mental disorder might fall out of his or her social environment. The hypothesis of this study is based on that the relative in the family having a mental disorder affects the sense of well=being and functioning of the patient’s immediate environment. This study helps to understand the parameters of the interaction of the family members with having both mental disorder and the social mind within the framework of the modern conditions. This study would need to involve a control group and an experimental group. It needs to involve face-to-face interactions in the requirement for the patients to fill out an informed consent on this experiment to conduct the study, and the relative of that patient would nee to fill out an SF-36 sheet. The sheet will contain to rank the quality of life, and the patient would need to answer the sheet for the internalized stigma of mental disorders (shortened version of 10 points ISMS-10). This analysis of this literature shows the importance of stigma in all its manifestations; it plays the role in the quality of life for the patient. This experiment would contain 60 people from the age of 18 up to 69, and 30 of them would not have any relatives. The empirical data would be collected from questionnaires which would be processed through the statistic program R. To prove or to refute the hypothesis, we need to compare the difference between the group that has a family member containing a mental disorder, and the other group that does not. The results that have been gathered, showed that the family members having no mental disorders had 105.23 points, while the ones that did had 100.77 points, so this shows that the first group having no mental disorders have more points than the ones that do.