Sequential mediation model of social support, care burden, and internalized stigma among family function and depression in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia: evidence from a cross-sectional study in southwest China.

Purpose: There is a lack of comprehensive measurements and systematic evaluations of the depression in caregivers of patients with psychiatric disorders and the factors influencing them in China. This study aims to explore the relationship between family function and depression in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia at the individual, family, and social levels according to the ecological system theory and attachment theory.

Methods: In this study, multi-stage, stratified cluster sampling was adopted to sample caregivers of patients with schizophrenia as subjects from one to three counties of four counties in Yunnan, from September 2022 to March 2023.

Recent Incidence of Human Malaria Caused by in the Villages in Kudat Peninsula, Sabah, Malaysia: Mapping of The Infection Risk Using Remote Sensing Data.

(Pk) is a malaria parasite that naturally infects macaque monkeys in Southeast Asia. Pk malaria, the zoonosis transmitted from the infected monkeys to the humans by mosquito vectors, is now a serious health problem in Malaysian Borneo. To create a strategic plan to control Pk malaria, it is important to estimate the occurrence of the disease correctly.