YANG Haiping,LI Jiang,CHEN Xiaoling, et al. Correlation between psychological states, coping styles and social support of primary caregivers of hospitalized stroke patients[J]. JOURNAL OF WEZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, 2016, 46(5): 372-375.
Abstract：Objective: To study the correlation between psychological state, coping styles and social support of primary caregivers of stroke patients. Methods: One hundred and sixty primary caregivers were screened out with the random sampling method for the investigation of their psychological states, coping styles and social support using IDA (irritability depression and anxiety scale), MCMQ (medical coping modes questionnaire) and SSRS (social support rating scale). Results: The IDA scores of primary caregiver of hospitalized stroke patients from high to low were anxiety, depression, inter-irritation and outer-irritation. The scores of positive coping styles, avoidance, and negative coping styles were 10.32±2.76, 18.39±3.24, and 15.08±2.96. The scores of social support from high to low were subjective support, objective support and utilization of support. There were significant differences between primary caregivers’s psychological state and coping styles in terms of all factors (P<0.05). The confrontation and avoidance in the primary caregivers were negatively correlated to the factors of IDA (P<0.05) and yielding in the coping style positively to the factors of IDA (P<0.05). Conclusion: The primary caregivers of stroke patients has serious psychological states problem on anxiety, depression and so on. The negative coping styles may promote the psychological states problem worse, while the positive may solve the problem. Therefore, the proper social support and nursing measures should be taken.
