Caregivers' experience with major depression concealed by physical illness in patients recruited from Central Ugandan Primary Health Care centers

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dc.creatorMuhwezi, Wilson Winstons
dc.creatorOkello, Elialilia Sarikiaeli
dc.creatorNeema, Stella
dc.creatorMusisi, Seggane
dc.date2013-01-09T07:21:12Z
dc.date2013-01-09T07:21:12Z
dc.date2008
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-04T12:32:54Z
dc.date.available2018-09-04T12:32:54Z
dc.descriptionIn this article, we present caregivers’ grapples with major depression seen among their physically ill patients. A thematic analysis of 29 in-depth caregiver interviews identified four themes: (a) caregivers’ perceptions of depression, (b) barriers to caregivers’ focus on depression, (c) resources and opportunities for managing depression, and (d) caregivers’ perspectives on consequences of depression. Patients’ physical illnesses concealed depressive episodes. Caregivers could not apply the label of “depression” but enumerated its indicative features. Stigmatization of depression, common with other mental illnesses and poverty, undermined caregiving. Vital caregiving resources included caregivers’ willingness to meet patients’ basic needs, facilitating patients’ access to health care, informal counseling of patients, and ensuring patients’ spiritual nourishment. Caregivers’ management of depression in physically ill patients was expensive, but they coped; however, caregiving was burdensome. Ongoing support should be given not only to patients but caregivers, as well. To provide appropriate care, caregivers deserve sensitization about depression in the context of physical illness.
dc.identifierMuhwezi, W.W., Okello, E.S., Neema, S., Musisi, S. (2008). Caregivers' experience with major depression concealed by physical illness in patients recruited from Central Ugandan Primary Health Care centers. Qualitative Health Research, 18(8)
dc.identifier1049-7323
dc.identifierhttp://qhr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/18/8/1096
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10570/962
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10570/962
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.subjectCoping and adaptation
dc.subjectUganda
dc.subjectDepression
dc.subjectCaregiving
dc.subjectAfrica
dc.subjectStress
dc.subjectInformal
dc.subjectDeveloping countries
dc.subjectThematic analysis
dc.subjectLife stories
dc.titleCaregivers' experience with major depression concealed by physical illness in patients recruited from Central Ugandan Primary Health Care centers
dc.typeJournal article, peer reviewed
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