الفهرس 
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Abstract
Summary
Depression is associated with serious disability, loss in quality of life, and substantial economic costs both at an individual and a societal level. It was expected to be the third leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020 (Ribeiro et al., 2017).
During the past 20 years, deinstitutionalization activity has changed the primary location of care from mental hospitals to community-based out-patient clinics. Hence, families of the patients with depression have been requested to increase their responsibility to support the patients. Family caregivers play multiple roles during caregiving experience (Hajebi et al., 2019).
1- Aim of the study:
This study aimed to assess family caregivers’ burden of patients having depression.
This aim was achieved through answering research question:
2- Research Question:
What is the level of family caregivers’ burden of patients having depression?
3- Research Design:
A descriptive design will be utilized in this study.
4- Research Setting:
The study was conducted in the out-patient department at El-Abbassia Psychiatric Hospital affiliated to the General Secretariat of Mental Health.
5- Subjects of the Study:
A Convenient sample of the family caregivers who fulfilled the following criteria was included in the study;
• Both sexes, free from psychiatric disorders.
• Patients who are diagnosed as depressed not less than one year.
• Family caregiver who live at the same home with the patient.
6- Tools of data collection:
The required data was collected through the following tools:
1- First part:
- Socio-demographic sheet:
Socio-demographic sheet was used to collect socio-demographic characteristics of the family caregiver which included: age, sex, marital status, occupation, educational level, number of family members, economic status , presence of any chronic disease, relationship with the patient, and period of caring.
2- Second part:
A- Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI):
Zarit Burden Interview is one of the most widely referenced scales in studies of caregiver burden. This 22 item burden interview assesses general caregiver burden. It was developed by Zarit, Anthony, and Boutselis, (1987) to measure the subjective burden, which was translated by To’meh, (2013).
B - The Montgomery Borgatta Caregiver Burden Scale:
This scale was developed by Montgomery, Borgatta and borgatta, (2000) which was translated by To’meh, (2013).
It consists of 14 items, these items contain 3 subscales: objective burden, subjective demand burden and subjective stress burden.
The study was limited to the objective burden as the previous scale (ZBI) was used to measure the subjective burden.
Objective burden:
Measure the extent to which care relationships impose on observable aspects of a caregiver’s life.
The main study findings are as following:
The majority of the family caregivers had moderate to severe subjective burden while, more than one quarter had severe subjective burden.
Majority of the studied caregivers had severe objective burden in comparison with the minority who felt moderate to severe burden.
There was no correlation between subjective burden and total objective burden among the studied family caregivers.
Recommendations
1. Replication of the current study on a larger probability sample is recommended to achieve generalization of the results.
2. Developing of some interventions as; home visit and family therapy are necessary to be applied so that, the quality of caregiving gets better and the physical and mental health of caregivers improves.
3. Mental health institutions should provide psycho-educational programs to all family caregivers of depressed patients to improve their knowledge and attitude toward depression and enable them to cope with their unexpected behavior.