The objective of this study is to investigate to what extent psychiatric history affects preabortion decision difficulty, experienced burden, and postabortion emotions and coping.
Because appropriate support is often lacking, caregivers can experience "burden of caring" [6] especially when the need for care provision has not been anticipated [7].
The relatives also experience burden due to the stigma associated with mental illness.
Therefore harm expectancy and experience, expected and experienced burden, credibility of treatment and treatment adherence will be assessed.
The overall mean score per question was 2.28 (SD ±0.58), which indicated that the majority of participants experienced burden from 'seldom to sometimes'.
This paper explores the attitude towards the screening program among several groups of pregnant women, relating acceptance to being informed and experienced burden.
In other words, when caregivers sought to meet patients' needs, they experienced burden, but they were relatively free when patients apparently expressed no needs for care.
Note: Positive Beta values signify better scores for all outcomes with a 0 10 or 0 100 range, except for the outcome Self-Rated Burden (SRB); for SRB, positive Beta values signify increased experienced burden.
Demands from patients scale in survey (α =.80) The survey also contained a question about the extent to which GPs experienced burden caused by demands from patients, for example 'the increasing independence of patients'.
In 2007, 602 Dutch care-givers who were assisting their older parents reported on parental and personal characteristics, care activities, experienced burden and characteristics of other informal care-givers.
