This review aims to understand the evidence of factors and impacts on
the family burden in caretaking families of schizophrenic individuals in
Asia. The family burden is a problem commonly found in many families
worldwide, especially those of schizophrenic individuals among family
members. Schizophrenic individuals portray specific dan severe
symptoms, having a particular impact on the caretaking family.
Responsibility for taking care of the schizophrenic individual makes the
family feel either a subjective or objective burden. As a global issue, the
family burden is closely related to the cultural context of each country.
Values passed on for generations certainly influence individuals' attitudes
and behaviour, including dealing with family burdens. The current review
uses the scoping review step to discover psychological models in the
family burden of caretaking families of schizophrenic individuals and is
limited to Asia only. The inclusion criteria using the Populations, Concept,
and Context (PCC framework). Populations for this review are families
with schizophrenic family members, the Concept is the family burden or
caregiver burden, and the Context is narrowed down to Asian countries.
The exclusion criteria are the caregiver of individuals with mental illness,
living in countries outside Asia, focusing on relapse models in non-family
member schizophrenic individuals, speaking languages other than English
and Bahasa Indonesia, and articles issued outside 2000 – 2020. There are
five steps of methods in the current scoping review: (1) identifying the
research question by PCC, (2) identifying the evidence, (3) study selection,
''charting the data'' (extracting the evidence), (4) data synthesis based on
critical issues narratively, and (5) collating, summarizing and reporting
the results. The results showed that the family's experience while caring
for the schizophrenic individual is related to the family burden. The family
burden is physical, psychological, emotional, social experiences, and
financial problems that the family goes through because of their
responsibility in caring for the schizophrenic individual