Abstract summary 

The study aims to explore the burden of caregiving among mental health nurses providing services to consumers with depression in Ghana.Interpretative phenomenological design and qualitative data FINDINGS: The study shows that several health system constraints and individual factors contribute to the burden of caregiving among mental health nurses. Health system challenges are the poor state of the psychiatric facility, while individual factors are stigmatizing attitudes, nonadherence to medication instructions, limited family support, and physical and verbal abuse. The coping strategies used by mental health nurses are self-motivation, emotional boundaries, and the perceived clinical outcomes of treatment.Clinical policies, procedures, and health facility practices should adequately address caregiving challenges, to facilitate effective mental health services.

Authors & Co-authors:  Deborah Tetteh Dela TD Anthony Edusei Kwaku EK Badu Eric E Amy Budu-Ainooson BA Gyamfi Naomi N Josephine Adusei-Nkrumah AN Opoku Maxwell Preprah MP

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