Familieleden onder druk. Ontwikkeling en psychometrische beoordeling van het Interview voor de Belasting van de Familie (IBF)

Since the fifties researchers have studied the 'Burden of mental illness on the family' in very different ways. Brown(1967, p.53) described it as follows: "The impact of living with a patient on the way of life and health of family members". Platt (1985, p. 383) defined it as: "The presence of problems, difficulties or adverse events which affect the life (lives) of the psychiatric patients' significant other(s), e.g. members of the household and/or the family". ... Zie: Summary.