Lifelong maternal caregiving for children with schizophrenia

✍ Scribed by Patricia B. Howard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 821 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1532-8228
• DOI: 10.1016/0883-9417(94)90041-8

✦ Synopsis

Maternal caregiving for adult children with schizophrenia is described using a lifespan perspective. Principles of naturalistic inquiry and a grounded-theory design guided field work methods. Nineteen in-depth interviews with ten participants averaged 4 hours each. Data analysis involved coding and classifying themes, constant comparison, and saturating theme categories. A model depicts findings including stages of learning in the experience. The stages are as follows: (1) perceiving a problem; (2) searching for solutions; (3) enduring the situation; and (4) surviving the experience. Implications include use of the model in developing intervention and education models.