Evaluation of caregiver burden and coping strategies in parents of paediatric familial Mediterranean fever patients in relation to illness severity, therapy and health-related quality of life.

As the caregiver burden increases, parents tend to use a dysfunctional coping strategy. Good control of disease activity with administration of medical therapy can reduce the disease severity, thereby decrease the caregiver burden, and secondly help to reduce the usage of dysfunctional coping in caregivers.