PMID: 9527676May 1, 1997Paper

The preliminary evaluation of quality of life in patients with chronic schizophrenia

Psychiatria polska
M GłówczakK Spiridonow

Abstract

The aim of our work was to check out the usefulness of the questionnaire "Quality of Life". Thirty patients from day hospitals in Warsaw took part in the research. 3/4 of the patients had indifferent attitude towards their clothes, environment, health and their lives generally. Everyday functioning is of some difficulty for the patients, and their families help them in everyday duties. Most of the patients can rely on their families in solving their problems. The higher was the patients' subjective level of functioning, the better was their quality of life. Estimation of everyday functioning made by patients themselves depends on the intensity of psychopathological symptoms. There is not such dependence concerning the patients' quality of life. Convergence between our data and data collected from the literature suggests usefulness of the questionnaire in the research on the quality of life of patients with mental illness.

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