Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine mental disorder patients' quality of life and family caregivers' burden and their satisfaction with their mental public health service. The data were collected with questionnaires from 103 mental health disorders and 70 their families who lived Ansan, in Korea. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and correlation. The scores on general quality of life of mental disorders are the highest and then physical health domain was the second highest. The scores on family burden are relatively higher than former result. In the case of caregiver's givers burden scores showed relatively high. At present both of them are satisfied with public mental health care service provided by district. However the mental disorders and their caregivers are the one who need the most financial support on mental health care. Based on these results we need to develop several programs such as empowerment of social relationship and communication skills for mental disorders. And also we suggest practical research and development in order to support financially on public mental health service. (Korean J Str Res 2009;17:219∼225)

• Keywords: Mental disorders, Quality of life, Family burden, Satisfaction