Abstract

Abstract

Objective: the relationship between Quality of life (QoL) and global functioning and symptoms in outpatients with Schizophrenia

Method: The study was carried out on the outpatients with schizophrenia attending a Community Mental Health Centre in 2008. Each patient completed the WHO QoL Instrument - Brief and was administered the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-24 to assess psychiatric symptoms and the VADO Personal and social Functioning Scale to assess the level of functioning.

Results: subjects showed an intermediate satisfaction on the overall QoL and health; these data can be juxtaposed to the national standard sample rates. QoL resulted positively associated to personal and social functioning, while it was negatively related to psychiatric symptoms.

Conclusion: patients showed a fairly good satisfaction in regard to their QoL. The severity of psychiatric symptoms is one of the elements influencing QoL, together with personal and social functioning that plays a relevant role.

Details

Title
Schizophrenia and quality of life: how important are symptoms and functioning?
Author
Galuppi, Anna; Turola, Maria Cristina; Nanni, Maria Giulia; Mazzoni, Paola; Grassi, Luigi
First page
31
Publication year
2010
Publication date
2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
17524458
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-4-31
ProQuest document ID
902323794
Copyright
© 2010 Galuppi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.