The influence of socio‐demographic and illness variables on quality of life in acute psychiatric inpatients

Abstract

The mental-health literature highlights the importance of improved quality of life as an explicit goal of the mental-health service. Recent work indicates that assessment of subjective quality of life can be feasible and meaningful in individuals with psychiatric disorders. Although a number of studies have examined the influence of demographic variables on subjective quality of life in individuals with psychiatric disorders, there remains a paucity of studies that have made comparisons between diagnoses in inpatient populations. We used the WHOQOL-BREF to examine the influence of different psychiatric diagnoses on quality of life and investigated whether the relationship between demographic variables and quality of life was the same across diagnoses. We found that the relationship between demographic and illness variables was complex, with inconsistent effects across WHOQOL-BREF domains. Certain domains of the WHOQOL-BREF were more sensitive to the influence of psychiatric diagnosis than others.

Perceived Spirituality, Mindfulness and Quality of Life in Psychiatric Patients

“…The data are not in agreement with the findings of previous studies (e.g. Goppoldova et al 2008;Hodgson et al 2007) which suggest changes in the psychiatric patients' QoL depending on their diagnosis. These results can be explained by the fact that all participants are patients of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Service-a service that aims to promote a better QoL through occupational therapy, psychological counselling, nursing and psychiatric careand, consequently, it appears that changes to the patients' QoL may have been promoted to the point where it has stabilised at a regular level-regardless of their diagnosis-justifying the absence of differences between groups.…”

“…Nonetheless and according to several studies, there is evidence linking QoL to good mental health scores. Hodgson et al (2007) conducted a study in which they sought to uncover the relationship between the quality of life domains and the psychopathological picture. The study had 129 psychiatric patients as participants, assessed using the WHOQOL-BREF and the CSQ-8 instruments.…”

“…The study had 129 psychiatric patients as participants, assessed using the WHOQOL-BREF and the CSQ-8 instruments. It was found that certain WHOQOL-BREF domains are more sensitive to the influence of psychiatric disorders than others as well as to a personal sense of satisfaction (Hodgson et al 2007). These results are consistent with the information obtained by Masthoff et al (2006) showing that psychiatric patients score significantly worse in all domains of QoL than people without psychological issues.…”

Determinants of mental and physical health-related quality of life among patients hospitalized for suicidal behavior

“…This association was also observed in depressive patients with SB (Wang et al, 2013) and without SB (Jung et al, 2012). Finally, an interesting finding of the present study is the positive association between employment and higher levels of physical HRQoL, which was similar to that reported in patients with schizophrenic or affective disorders (Caron et al, 2005;Hodgson et al, 2007;Ruesch et al, 2004).…”

“…Findings from the current study reveal that levels of HRQoL among patients with SB are lower as compared to the general population in Argentina (Daray et al, 2017). In accordance with this observation, previous work suggests psychiatric patients without SB (Caron et al, 2005;Hodgson et al, 2007) and depressive patients with SB (Shepard et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2013) endorse lower scores of HRQoL as compared to the general population. The data extend previous work by examining HRQoL among a patient population presenting with diverse psychopathology and SB.…”