The relationship between coping styles and family burden in chronic schizophrenic and bipolar type I patients’ caregivers

Table 2 Comparison of coping strategies in schizophrenia and BMD I caregivers

Variable	Mean difference	SD^a difference	t	df^b	Sig^c
Problem focused	1.3	1.45	0.89	98	0.37
Emotion focused	0.4	0.54	0.73	98	0.46
Less useful coping	− 0.78	0.78	− 0.98	98	0.32