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| Published: August 04, 2021

Quality of Life and Psychosocial Dysfunction among Person with Schizophrenia

Indira Bhowmick

Lecturer, Psychiatric Social Work, Dr RML Hospital, New Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Satabdi Chakraborty

Associate Professor & HOD (Psychiatric Social Work), Dr RML Hospital, New Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Pradeep Kumar

Consultant, Psychiatric Social Work, State Institute of Mental Health, PT., B. D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.055.20210903

DOI: 10.25215/0903.055

ABSTRACT

Psychosocial dysfunction is expressly relevant to psychiatric disorders. Psychosocial dysfunction and Quality of Life (QOL) of the person with schizophrenia is being disrupted due to several regions. Schizophrenia has a synergistically corrosive effect on quality of life of the affected person that extends far beyond clinical symptoms. The aim of the study was to assess and compare the quality of life among the person with Schizophrenia and the level of their psychosocial dysfunction as well as severity of illness, so that an effective prevention strategy could be formulated in further. This study is a cross-sectional study consists of 60 individuals diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Tools: Socio-demographic and clinical checklist, PANSS, WHO-Quality of Life Scale and Dysfunctional Analysis Questionnaire. The result indicates that there is no significant difference between the genders of persons diagnosed with Schizophrenia on variables viz. Quality of life, psychosocial dysfunction. There was a significant negative correlation between quality of life and psychosocial dysfunction also there were significant negative correlation between severity of illness and quality of life. There was significant positive correlation between severity of illness and psychosocial dysfunction.

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

18.01.055.20210903

10.25215/0903.055

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Published in   Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021