Strategies for coping with family pressures, psychological and social problems, and families of people with mental disorders attending the Irada Mental Health. (a prospective study)

Abstract

The study sought to identify the strategies used by families of people with mental disorders to cope with psychological pressures and the most common psychological and social issues they face, as well as the differences in these strategies based on variables like age, family income, and care education. (311) Irada Complex for Mental Health families with mental illness were studied. The study found that families of people with mental disorders had average strategies for dealing with psychological stress, as the arithmetic mean was (1.09) for the total score of the scale of strategies for dealing with family stress. Avoiding escape came in first place with an average score, and psychological and social problems were low. The study found that families of people with mental disorders have different strategies for dealing with psychological and social issues based on age (older people had better strategies than younger people), economic level (higher people had better strategies than low and medium people), and The high category, the educational level, and the number of years of mental disorder, which favored the category of more than ten years, followed by the category of less than five years, and the family's economic level, which did not differ. According to the results, psychological and social problems had a statistically significant impact on the strategies used by families of people with mental disorders to deal with psychological pressures, explaining 54.1% of the variation in those strategies. Psychological pressures in mental illness families