정신과 환자 가족의 불안에 관한 연구

The Anxiety of the Fam ily Members of Psychiatric Patients

In order to study the anxiety of the family members of psychiatric patients, Zungs self-rating anxiety scale was administered to 100 individuals of the family members of psychiatric and internal medicine patients. Revised questionnaire of“Public attitude toward mental illness”developed by Star was administered simultaneously, to the same subjects in order to study the impact of mental illness on the anxiety.The results were as follows. 1. The anxiety level of either group was higher than that of normal population group. The anxiety level of the family members of psychiatric patients was significantly higher than that of internal medicine patients. 2. In the family members of psychiatric , patients, the anxiety level of the family members of psychotics was significantly higher than that of neurotics. 3. The anxiety level was higher in family members with negative attitude compairing with those of positive attitude in both groups. 4. The anxiety level was higher in femals than male in both groups. The anxiety level was higher in parents and spouses than offsprings or brothers and sisters. 5. The anxiety level increased according to age increment in the family members of psychiatric patients, but not in those of internal medicine patients.