Effect of Hardiness Training on level of Hardiness among family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia

Abstract

Schizophrenia affects people in their productive age, usually 18-35 years (Varcarolis, 2012). Family caregivers have difficulty to cope with the illness of their patient (George & Raju, 2014).  Hardiness is an essential trait which helps  all individuals to face tough times of life situations. Hardiness can be developed through training ( Maddi and Khoshaba, 2011). 

Purpose

Improve the level of  hardiness of family caregivers and thereby preventing  mental illness and promoting mental health.   

Methods

A quantitative approach with quasi  experimental Pre-test – Post-test control group design. 100 family caregivers selected through simple random sampling 50 each in the Experimental and Control Group.

Results

The result revealed that the  mean post-test score on Level of Hardiness (`X<sub>2</sub> = 54.26) was significantly higher than the pre-test score on   Level of Hardiness in Experimental Group (`X₁ = 27.48). The ‘t’ test computed between the post-test scores of Experimental and Control Group on Level of Hardiness (t =27.89, df-98, p < 0.001) was statistically significant at 0.001 level.

Conclusions

The current study concluded that the Hardiness Training was effective in improving Hardiness  among family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia.