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Background:Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic mental disorder that can be a source of emotional, financial and/or social burden for family caregivers. Few studies have investigated family caregiving for patients diagnosed with OCD in relation to the coping strategies being used from a theoretical perspective. This study evaluated the burden and coping strategies of family caregivers for people diagnosed with OCD. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted, in which 94 participants diagnosed with OCD and their caregivers were surveyed using Burden assessment schedule (BAS) used to measure burden among caregivers of patients of OCD. Results:The mean ages of the patients were 36.03 + 12.03 and the caregivers were 43.28 + 14.76. Only 46.8% of the caregivers were female, compared to 74.5% of the patients who were female. Patients spouses made up half of the caregivers (50%) and parents made up almost a quarter (22%) The average length of the illness was 8.10± 6.60 years, and the average length of the cure was 4.04 ±4.47 years. The mean BAS score for the caregiver was 39.52 ±12.99. The Relationship Between Sociodemographic, Clinical, Quality-of-Life, and Disease Burden of Patients The BAS scores of caregivers who had patients who thought their income was low were significantly higher than those of the other caregivers (p=0.013). Conclusions:Designing strategic interventions for family caregiver coping is necessary to support the unique burdens and coping mechanisms faced by family caregivers of people with OCD.

Background:Dissociative disorder is a stress-related disorder usually present in adolescent and younger age group. It is also accompanied with significant impairment in activity of daily living and family relationship. Family environment plays important role in initiation and maintenance of symptoms and this put significant burden on family. To assess different types of clinical presentations, level of stress and role of family environment among dissociative disorder patients and check for association between sex distributions. Material and Method:This cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on patients with primary diagnosis of dissociative disorder as per ICD-10 criteria coming to psychiatry outpatient department of Sri Aurobindo Medical College and Postgraduate Institute, Indore a premier tertiary care hospital situated at northern part of India, covering, and serving a large catchment area, during the period of 18 months. 80 patients were recruited for the purpose of study. The procedure and rationale for the study was explained to all subjects and informed written consent were taken in their local language. Patients were included after fulfilling inclusion criteria from both inpatients and outpatient department of psychiatry. Result:In our study, majority of the patients (48.75%) belonged to the age group 18-30 years. The prevalence rates decrease with age. 37.5% of the patients were between the age group 31-40 years and 13.75% were over the age of 40 years. In a study of 80 patients with dissociative (conversion) disorder, 77.5% were females and 22.5% were male. There was female predominance. Conclusion:Dissociative disorders are more common in females than males. It always occurs in the background of increased stressful life events and in the presence of significant psychosocial stressors. Future studies should be undertaken in a large sample with a prospective design to examine the impact of disease duration and other mediators, such as family type and coping style. &nbsp