Insight into mental illness, self-stigma, and the family burden of parents of persons with a severe mental illness

Parents of persons with severe mental illness (SMI) often experience burden due to the illness of their daughter or son. In the present study, the possibility that parents' self-stigma moderates the relationship between the parents' insight into a daughter's or son's illness and the parents' sense of burden was investigated.Levels of insight into a daughter's or son's mental illness, parent self-stigma, and parent burden of 127 parents of...