• Akinola Funmilayo Victoria
• AKINTAYO TIMOTHY MAYOWA
• JONATHAN FAVOUR CHIDERA
• ADEBOLA OLAMIDE EJIRO

Schizophrenia is a chronic psychosis in which the patient losses contact with reality, it may result in some combination of hallucination, delusions and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily function and can be disabling. Schizophrenia has a global prevalence of 0.3-0.7% or 21 million people worldwide as of 2011 (about one in every 285), with about 1.7 million people suffering from schizophrenia in Nigeria (Adegbaju,2014). The caregivers of schizophrenic patients are likely to face increasing level of stress including care burden, dealing with patient’s symptoms and behavior, changes in household routines and family relations, fear and embarrassment about illness, uncertainty about the cause of disease, lack of social support and stigma. Little is known about stress of care and coping strategies of family members while caring of schizophrenia patient in developing countries. Therefore, the aim of this research is to determine the family caregivers’ stress and coping strategies with clients living with schizophrenia in Federal Teaching Hospital Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State. A cross-sectional descriptive research design was used to assess the extent of stress and coping strategies, using convenient sampling technique to select respondents. Questionnaire was used to elicit information from 84 participants. In conclusion, the family caregivers of patients living with schizophrenia are moderately stressed with their relatives’ illness. Most of them are making effort to be out of this challenge. Therefore, it is recommended that effort should be made to provide psychosocial intervention to caregivers of patient with schizophrenia at both hospital and community level.

Family Caregivers, Stress, Coping Strategies, Schizophrenia.

"Family Caregivers’ stress and coping strategies among clients living with Schizophrenia in Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti Ekiti State. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no.f111-f127, November-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211516.pdf

"Family Caregivers’ stress and coping strategies among clients living with Schizophrenia in Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti Ekiti State. ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no. ppf111-f127, November-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211516.pdf