These challengeable tasks, chronic stress, daily hassles
and negative caregivers perception bring profound objective
and/or subjective burden that involves psychosocial,
physical, and financial impact on the caregivers
of individuals with severe mental illness which is
comparable to that of persons with other illnesses
such as Alzheimer’s disease or cancer, especially after
deinstitutionalization movement began more than five
decades ago because there was transferring of responsibility
and day-to-day care to family members [13–15].
As caregivers struggle to balance work, family and care
giving, their own physical and emotional health is often ignored.
As a result of this and lack of personal, financial,