No CrossRef data available.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
The first goal of schizophrenia treatment in the past was to reduce positive symptoms, because it is thought that due to psychopathology and poor awareness, patients were unable to assess themselves and their needs. Recently, the goal of the treatment is improvement of social life and emphasizes the assessment of quality of life and life satisfaction as a priority of the service providers.
Quality of life and life satisfaction assessment in schizophrenia, evidence of anxiety and depression in schizophrenia and connection between the above variables.
Exploration of quality of life and life satisfaction in patients suffering from schizophrenia.
Subjects were120 outpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia by psychiatrists. Data were obtained using: Quality of Life Questionnaire, Hopkins Questionnaire for Depression and Anxiety, Life Satisfaction Questionnaire and The McGill Illness Narrative Interview.
Data collected were analyzed with SPSS 17. Description of the results includes descriptive data, cross table for nominal data and ANOVA and T test for averages. Average age was 41.6, range 21–67. Average of education was 10.1, range 4-19. The average age of diagnosis was 25.1, range 15–39.
Frequent changes of therapy have resulted in more anxiety and depression symptoms in patients suffering from schizophrenia. Individuals with more symptoms of anxiety and depression were found to have less life satisfaction. Quality of life was found to be the highest reported in individuals treated with atypical antipsychotics.
To send this article to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
Comments
No Comments have been published for this article.