Burden in Schizophrenia: A Literature review
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- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.401How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Schizophrenia; Hard burden; Soft burden
- Abstract
Although some researchers have made studies on some aspects of the burden of schizophrenia patients, there is not a comprehensive focus. This paper will focus on both the hard burden (easily quantifiable data, such as economic) and the soft burden (difficult to quantify data) of schizophrenia patients. Additionally, data on the economic burden of schizophrenia vary across countries or regions due to differences in mental health service delivery, economic development, and health care coverage systems. Mental illness is much less understood in general in developing countries, and patients receive less assistance. Therefore, this paper aims to summarize the burden of schizophrenia by examining data from developing countries. This paper assessed the disease burden of schizophrenia through a literature review. The data searched were largely international databases such as ScienceDirect. The search found s studies covering four aspects of the burden: economic, family, physical, and social. It was concluded that the burden suffered by people with schizophrenia in developing countries is substantial. The disease imposes a heavy economic, psychological, and physical burden on patients in developing countries. In addition, the family burden and social burden caused by schizophrenia should be given full public attention.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hanchun Yang AU - Hanyang Yu PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Burden in Schizophrenia: A Literature review BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 2324 EP - 2328 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.401 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.401 ID - Yang2021 ER -