Quality of life, social support, and severity of psychiatric symptoms in Jordanian patients with schizophrenia

Abstract

The major purposes of this study were to examine levels and correlations of quality of life (QOL), social support, and severity of psychiatric symptoms as well as to identify the variables that best predict QOL among Jordanian patients with schizophrenia. Descriptive cross-sectional design was used to collect data from 160 patients selected through systematic random sampling from two psychiatric outpatient clinics. Results showed that the highest domain of QOL was the social relationship domain, and the highest source of social support was perceived from significant others. Severity of affective symptoms was the highest, and severity of positive symptoms was the lowest. QOL correlated positively with social support, patients' educational and income level, and employment; and negatively with severity of psychiatric symptoms, duration of untreated illness, and duration of treatment. Support from friends, duration of untreated illness, income level, and severity of affective symptoms predicted QOL and accounting for 47.3% of the variance.

Comparisons of Health-Related Quality of Life and Impact Factors in Patients with Depression and Schizophrenia

“…In our research, the explanation of multi-level predicators and HRQOL of patients with depression or schizophrenia is just range from six to thirty six percent. The similar results also can be found in other previous researches [26,27].…”

“…And more interestingly, the socio-demographic of ethnicity and medical factor of degree of disease have opposite impact functions on the HRQOL between these two patient groups. An interesting result is also found that the more severe the degree of schizophrenia is in onset, the higher score of HRQOL is, this result is similar with some result in China, however, it seems to be opposite conclusion with the study of Hamaideh S, which show that it is correlated positively with patients education, negatively with severity of psychiatric symptoms [27]. It also indicate that there may be some heterogeneous reasons in same factor we are not determined.…”

“…However, some studies get the different outcomes. Some previous research nd that social-demographic and socioeconomic factors may not the only sorts of factors impact the HRQOL of patients and it seems not to have the most important role in schizophrenia [27]. In our study, when separately analyzing the relationships between impact factors and the physical component summary (PCS), mental component summary (MCS) of HRQOL respectively, there are some interesting outcomes are found.…”

Satisfação Com O Suporte Social E Qualidade De Vida Dos Doentes Com Esquizofrenia

“…Por tanto, es crucial la implementación de las intervenciones de enfermería en salud mental que promueven relaciones interpersonales no sólo dentro del grupo terapéutico, sino también en la comunidad. DESCRIPTORES: Esquizofrenia; Apoyo social; Calidad de Vida Submetido em 27-01-2017 Aceite em 20-06-2017 Existem já alguns estudos, que evidenciam que quanto maior o apoio social dos doentes com esquizofrenia, melhor a qualidade de vida (Hamaideh, Al-Magaireh, Abu-Farsakh, & Al-Omari, 2014;Lanfredi et al, 2014;Suttajit, & Pilakanta, 2015). Outros, relacionam a perceção de apoio social destes doentes com esta mesma variável (Adelufosi, Ogunwale, Abayomi, & Mosanya, 2013;Eack, Newhill, Anderson, & Rotondi, 2007;Gutiérrez-Maldonado et al, 2012).…”

Social Support and Health-Related Quality of Life among Mental Health Service Users in Japan

“…[6][7][8]). In both the general population, and for people with various mental health challenges, social support has been considered to be related to quality of life [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], and recovery [20,21].…”