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Introduction: Informal caregivers play a vital role in supporting people with severe mental illness. However, this role can leave informal caregivers with significant unmet needs. The aim of this qualitative study is to identify the extent to which the support offered to informal caregivers in adult psychiatry in French-speaking Switzerland meets their needs.

[Perspectives of family caregivers, health professionals, and support providers on partnership issues in adult psychiatry].

Context: Family caregivers play an essential role in the continuity of care for patients with mental health problems. However, the lack of consideration for their role and difficulties in their collaboration with health professionals impact their involvement.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify the issues underlying the family-professional partnership.

A randomized controlled trial of a targeted support program for informal caregivers in adult psychiatry.

Background: The importance of informal caregivers for persons with severe mental illness has been demonstrated. However, this role may cause a high care burden that considerably affects caregiver health. The Ensemble program is a five-session brief individual intervention designed to support informal caregivers.

[Burden and perceived stress among informal caregivers of people suffering from mental disorders].

Informal caregivers of people with severe mental illness are particularly at risk of experiencing high levels of burden and perceived stress, which can worsen their global health. In addition, the semi-confinement in 2020 represented a period of additional difficulties for informal caregivers in French-speaking of Switzerland. The burden represents all the negative consequences linked to the informal caregiver role.

[The Ensemble Program: Making sense of your actions through ACT].

The Ensemble program supports informal caregivers of people with mental health problems. Tailor-made support is offered in order to target the tools that will be most useful to them in their personal situation. Acceptance and commitment therapy can be used to help them give meaning to their actions.

Women involvement in the informal caregiving field: A perspective review.

The patient recovery process of individual with mental health disorder is reinforced if they are connected with their community and supported by relatives. The literature has shown that caregivers are important, although their roles can lead to alterations in their own health; and women are the most involved in this role. The present review investigated women's involvement in the informal caregiver scientific field.

Ensemble programme for early intervention in informal caregivers of psychiatric adult patients: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Informal caregivers play a major role in the support and maintenance of community patients with severe psychiatric disorders. A pilot study showed that an individualised brief intervention such as the Ensemble programme leads to significant improvements in psychological health state and optimism.

Methods And Analysis: This randomised controlled trial aims to compare the efficacy of using Ensemble in improving informal caregivers' psychological health states and the ability to play an active role in their situations with that of support as usual.

Optimism and the Psychological Recovery Process Among Informal Caregivers of Inpatients Suffering From Depressive Disorder: A Descriptive Exploratory Study.

Informal caregivers of people suffering from depressive disorders go through a psychological recovery process. This process is dynamic, deep, catalyzed by hope and optimism and characterized by stages from which specific needs ensue. This study aimed to describe the stages of the psychological recovery process and the level of optimism among informal caregivers of psychiatric inpatients suffering from depressive disorders in order to provide adapted nursing support and psychoeducation and facilitate a patient's own recovery.