Relationship between quality of life and social integration among patients with schizophrenia attending a Nigerian tertiary hospital
- 1 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Quality of Life Research
- Vol. 30 (6), 1665-1674
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-021-02764-x
Abstract
Despite decades of de-institutionalization and the best efforts of community mental health services, individuals with schizophrenia living outside the hospital may be described as in the community but not of the community, and remain in a very real sense socially excluded.Keywords
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