Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Quality of life in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia: A literature review | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Review Quality of life in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia A literature review Alejandra Caqueo-Urizar 1 José Gutierrez-Maldonado2 and Claudia Miranda-Castillo3 Address Department of Philosophy and Psychology University of Tarapacá 18 de Septiembre 2222 Arica Chile 2Department of Personality Evaluation and Psychological treatments University of Barcelona Paseo Valle de Hebron 171 08035 Barcelona Spain and 3Department of Mental Health Sciences University College London 67-73 Riding House Street London W1W 7EJ UK Email Alejandra Caqueo-Urizar - acaqueo@ José Gutierrez-Maldonado - jgutierrezm@ Claudia Miranda-Castillo - Corresponding author Published II September 2009 Received 27 February 2009 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 84 doi 1477-7525-7-84 Accepted 11 September 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 84 2009 Caqueo-Urízar et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background A couple of decades ago hospitals or psychiatric institutions were in charge of caring for patients with schizophrenia however nowadays this role is performed by one or more patient s relatives. Evidence shows that informal caregivers experience negative changes in their quality of life QOL . The aim of this study is to review the main factors associated with the QOL of caregivers of people with schizophrenia. Methods A search through databases from journals published last decade between 1998 and 2008 was performed. In accordance with the inclusion criteria titles and abstracts of citations obtained from the search were examined independently by two authors and irrelevant articles .
