title: Personality of mental health caregivers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Caring for a family member with a chronic mental illness can be a major challenge with putting caregivers at risk of burden and depression. This review investigated the recent evidence on the role of personality traits and features for caregiver burden and depression in caregivers of care recipients with mental illness.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Most of the evidence was found for caregivers looking after care recipients with dementia. Neuroticism was the personality trait showing the strongest association with caregiver burden and depression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Certain personality traits and features can increase the risk of caregiver burden and depression in caregivers looking after family members with a mental illness. More research is needed especially focusing on caregivers looking after care recipients with mental illnesses other than dementia as well as on interventions aiming to support vulnerable caregivers.
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, St Vincent's Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. nicolatl@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Nicola T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Lautenschlager
authors.forename: Alexander F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Kurz
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Loi
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cramer
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D013315:Stress, Psychological