Determination of the Dysfunction of Social Roles with Mentally Ill

Abstract

Object:

The object of the research is the determination of the level of social dysfunction with the patients suffering from mental disorders.

Materials and methods:

There have been examined 327 out-of-clinic (the under-test group) and 211in-clinic (the comparison group) patients.

The structured interview and the social expert technique, statistic. The determination of the limits of the vital functions was performed with the help of the psychiatric scale of the limitation of the vital functions.

Prior to the rehabilitation measures, the performance of the social roles with the 6.1% of the patients of the under-test group has revealed “no dysfunction”, and following the rehabilitation - with the 24.5% of the ill. The comparison's group indices are 6.5% and 11.3% respectively. The minimal dysfunction has been determined with 7.5% and 22.2% respectively of the under-test group and 8.1% and 12,8% ( all ð< 0,05) of the comparison one. The redistribution of the patients into the minimal/no dysfunction subgroup was largely due to the patients with evident, serious and very serious dysfunction. The decrease of the dysfunction of the social roles of all the patients of the under-test group means that the true restoration of the patients’ functioning in the different domains of the society is possible only if there are developed rehabilitation measures targeting at the planning stage the so-called “troubled” social roles.

Results:

The true restoration of the patients’ social functioning is possible only if the rehabilitation measures target the “troubled” social roles.