Domains and Determinants of Quality of Life in Schizophrenia and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Radhakrishnan, Rajiv; Menon, Jayakumar; Kanigere, Milanduth; Mysore, Ashok; Shobha, Vineeta; Galgali, RB

doi:10.4103/0253-7176.96159

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“…The Indian studies also showed that employed patients had better QOL, 15 age and duration of illness correlated with quality of life. 16 Study conducted by Patra S et al 13 in India also showed similar findings to our study that poor quality of life was associated with unmarried status and higher education. Contrasting to our study, the male gender was also associated with poor quality of life in the study.…”

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Relationship of Quality of Life With Sociodemographic and Treatment Variables in Outpatients Having Schizophrenia

Dcosta¹,

Chandak²,

Khismatrao³

2017

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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia management includes interventions like medications, psychosocial support and rehabilitation efforts. Along with treatment, improvement in Quality of Life (QOL) is the goal of psychiatrist in managing schizophrenia patients. The aim of the study is to find whether sociodemographic factors, type of medications prescribed and family support plays any role in improving QOL in schizophrenia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our study was conducted in tertiary care hospital on 40 outpatients between 21-60 years clinically stable and suffering from schizophrenia for more than 2 years. A semi-structured questionnaire and self-administered disease specific Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale (SQLS) was used to collect data. RESULTS Study shows that employed and married individuals have better QOL, while contrastingly patients with higher education had low QOL. CONCLUSION Study also highlights that family support is key to improved perceived QOL and type of medications used by psychiatrists does not influence QOL.

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“…12 Pubmed, Medline and Google search revealed four more studies conducted after 2001 using WHOQOL-Bref scale. [13][14][15][16][17] Thus, there are few studies done in India and none have used a disease specific subjective self-rated scale to understand the interrelation between Schizophrenia and QOL in our Indian patients.…”

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2017

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“…A study showed, they didn't found statistically significant differences between men and women in specific domains and in general health perception. 27 Among all the participants indicated that there is statistically significant difference between educational level and physical health domain Cardoso 26 found that low level education had significantly associated with QOL especially on the social relationship domain.…”

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Quality of life of schizophrenic patients in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh

Mahmud

Yeasmin

Mandal³

2017

Bang J Psychiatry

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Schizophrenia is one of the major mental disorders which affect individuals thinking ability, social interaction or attention. It affects persons entire quality of life. The purpose of the study was to find out the quality of life of schizophrenic patient in Bangladesh. Cross sectional study design was used to conduct this study. The convenient sampling procedure was used throughout the process of participants selection and the numbers of respondents were 83. The study was carried out at National Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (NIMH), Dhaka. Data was collected by using face to face interview with a structured questionnaire WHOQOL-BREF (The World Health Organization Quality of Life- BREF) scale. It was found that most of the participants lead poor to moderate quality of life in four domains of the WHOQOL-BREF scale. Results showed that mean scores were for physical health (mean 2.7, SD+0.106); psychological health (mean 2.108, SD +0.0787); social relationship (mean 2.226; SD+0.116) and environmental health (mean 2.47; SD+0.077).This study indicated that, quality of life poor on psychological domain. It was also found statistically significance with age and social relationship domain (p value 0.005< 0.05); marital status and physical health domain (p value 0.004<0.05); educational level and physical health domain (p value 0.005<0.05) and environmental health domain (p value 0.025<0.05). There were no statistically significant difference between gender and other variables. Schizophrenia affects all aspects of persons life such as physically, psychologically, socially and economically. Schizophrenic patients as well as their family members led very poor quality of life.Bang J Psychiatry June 2015; 29(1): 30-34

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“…Patients with schizophrenia had significantly lower scores in the social domain, as in our study. [ 12 ] On comparing QOL in schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis also, comparable scores were obtained in all the four domains. [ 13 ]…”

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Quality of life of patients with schizophrenia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: An observational study

Ramadas

Bonanthaya

2017

Ind Psychiatry J

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Background:Quality of life (QOL) is a novel and holistic parameter in measuring health outcome. Recently, the concept is gaining importance as an outcome measure in illnesses, with a chronic and progressive course. Schizophrenia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are psychological and physical illnesses, respectively, which share this characteristic. Studies comparing the QOL of psychological and physical illnesses are few. The extant literature did not reveal any studies comparing the QOL of schizophrenia and COPD.Aim:The aim of this study was to compare the QOL of patients with schizophrenia, a chronic psychiatric disorder, and COPD, a chronic physical illness.Materials and Methods:The study was cross-sectional in design. The QOL of thirty patients each with schizophrenia and COPD, from a tertiary care teaching hospital, was assessed using the WHO Quality of Life Assessment-BREF scale. Comparison was done between the two groups.Results:The QOL of patients with schizophrenia was significantly better in the physical domain (Z = 2.75, P = 0.006) and overall perception of life (Z = 3.25, P = 0.001). Overall perception of health was also better in schizophrenia (Z = 1.94, P = 0.052). The social domain was the only one in which COPD patients had a better score than schizophrenic patients, though it was not statistically significant (Z = 0.17, P = 0.86).Conclusion:The QOL of schizophrenic patients is slightly better compared to that of COPD patients. Only in the social domain was the QOL of schizophrenic patients inferior to that of COPD patients. Therefore, in schizophrenic patients, priority interventions to improve the social deficits are important because these determine their QOL vis a vis, a chronic physical illness.

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Domains and Determinants of Quality of Life in Schizophrenia and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Relationship of Quality of Life With Sociodemographic and Treatment Variables in Outpatients Having Schizophrenia

Relationship of Quality of Life With Sociodemographic and Treatment Variables in Outpatients Having Schizophrenia

Quality of life of schizophrenic patients in a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh

Quality of life of patients with schizophrenia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: An observational study

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