· Background. Typically, the term ‘a sample of caregivers’ refers to parents and partners but rarely to children. In studies exploring caregiver burden, children of psychiatric patients tend to comprise a small part of a heterogeneous subject group (e.g., Cleary et al. 2005; Reinares et al. 2006; Adewuya et al. 2011).Chronic psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar and ….