The determination of caregiver's caregiving loads, depression levels and coping styles with stress who responsible for patients who have migraine and depression illness

This study is a sort of complimentary research and it's aim to determine care burden of caregivers, depression levels and coping styles with stress who responsible for patients who have migraine and depresion illness. This research's period is consisting of September 2014-April 2015 and it's done in policlinic of emergency and psychiatry services in GATA. Research population is consisting of 60 patient's caregivers who applied policlinic of emergency service and 50 patient's caregivers who applied policlinic of psychiatry for treatment against to migraine illness. Descriptive data form, Zarit care burden scale (ZCBS), Beck depression scale (BDS), Styles of Coping With Stress Inventory (SCSI) are used for gathering to datas. SPSS.15 is used when it's analyzing to data's point, percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, Kruskal Wallis H and Mann Whitney U Test. Signifance level is accepted as p<0.05. It's determined that average of caregiver's ZCBS, BDS and Self-Confidence Approach (SCA) (sub-dimensions of SCSI) scores are higher than individual's who have migraine at signifance level (p<0.05). In this study, it is recommended that nurses should guide caregivers whenever they live any difficulty in this process. Because care burden of depressive patient's and depression level is found statistically higher and also caregivers who are responsible for patients who have migraine and depression uses similar styles to cope with stress. Keywords: Caregiver, care burden, depression, migraine, stress.