Quality of life for patients with schizophrenia living in the community in Greece
- 1 August 2009
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
- Vol. 16 (6), 546-552
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01413.x
Abstract
Several quality of life instruments were considered for use in a Greek mental health environment. Subjective Quality of Life Profile was chosen as it was easy to complete and covered the issues raised by patients with schizophrenia through interviews. Confirmatory factor analysis gave credence to the four-dimensional structure identified by the original authors. Patients with schizophrenia were generally satisfied with their quality of life, found the items in the instrument important and were optimistic about expectations for change. Age, gender, education, marital status and years of sickness were not statistically significant in a general linear model with quality of life as the outcome for the 27 core questions. There were some statistically significant results for the three disease-specific questions; positive expectation was correlated positively with education and negatively with years of sickness.Keywords
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