Experience of Caregiving Inventory (ECI)

Full name of scale

Experience of Caregiving Inventory

Languages

English, Spanish, Chinese

Rater

Family-rated (caregivers of patients with schizophrenia)

Training

No training required

Utility

It is a 66-item scale used to study appraisals of the caregiving experience.

Versions

Brief Experience of Caregiving Inventory; 19-item scale

Time to complete

No information found

Cost/license

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Szmukler, G. I., Burgess, P., Herrman, H., Bloch, S., Benson, A., & Colusa, S. (1996). Caring for relatives with serious mental illness: The development of the Experience of Caregiving Inventory. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 31(3–4), 137–148. Follow this link for the article.

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