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March 29, 2026Indian Journal of Social PsychiatryOpen Access

Perceived Stress, Perceived Social Support, and Resilience of Family Caregivers of Individuals with Mental Illness: A Study Conducted in Community Extension Clinic

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KGKunjalata GogoiABArunjyoti BaruahBSBarsha Sensua

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Overview

Quantitative analysis shows caregivers of individuals with mental illness experience low stress, high social support, and normal resilience.

Key Points

  • Assess perceived stress, social support, and resilience among family caregivers of individuals with mental illness.
  • Used a non-experimental descriptive design
  • Collected data from two community extension clinics in India
  • Included 120 caregivers via purposive sampling
  • Employed perceived stress scale, multidimensional scale of perceived social support, and brief resilience scale
  • Mean perceived stress score was 13.17, indicating low stress in 55% of caregivers
  • Mean perceived social support score was 61.41, with 63.3% having high social support
  • Mean resilience score was 20.58, with 55.8% showing normal resilience
  • Significant associations were found between perceived stress and various caregiver demographics
  • Gender of caregivers correlated with both perceived social support and resilience

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Gogoi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c8c336de0f0f753b39ddf9https://doi.org/10.4103/ijsp.ijsp_140_25
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