Quality of life, enjoyment and satisfaction in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Psychology - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: It has been shown that schizophrenia patients’ family caregivers have lower scores on measures of quality of life comparing to caregivers of the patients with other psychiatric diagnoses Aims and Objectives: To study Quality of life, enjoyment and satisfaction in caregivers of patients with Schizophrenia. Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out in the caregivers of schizophrenic patients with written consent Care givers of persons suffering from schizophrenia were enrolled in the Group S -50 persons and Group NS- 50 includes the relatives of Patients with other psychiatric disorders, attending the outpatient department of a psychiatry in Bharati Hospital, were assessed on Quality of Life, Enjoyment And Satisfaction Questionnaire (QLESQ-SF), Global Assessment Of unctioning and data were collected for the study. The statistical analysis was done by SPSS 19 version software. Result: In our study we have seen that the mean age in both the group was 39 ± 3.45 and 38 ± 5.1, comparable with each other (t=1.1484, df = 98,p>0.05), The male to female composition in each group was comparable with each other (χ2 = 0.04040, df=1, p>0.05). The 42% of the subject in the Group S were having disturbed Physical health where as only 22% of the subjects in Group NS this difference was statistically significant (χ2 = 4.59, df=1, p<0.03). The 38% of the subject in the Group S were having disturbed social relationship where as only 18% of the subjects in Group NS this difference was statistically significant (χ2 = 4.96, df=1, p<0.02). The mean QLESQ-SF Score in Group S was 43.8 ± 3.21 and Group NS was 49.21 ± 2.95 this observed difference was statistically significant (t=8.7747, df = 98, p<0.0001) Conclusions: The findings from this study suggest that caregivers need social support and family intervention programmes to cope with the burden of care-giving and enhance better quality of life. Decreased quality of life may be associated with caregivers burden, lack of social support, course of the disease and family relationships problems. In addition in developing countries, quality of life is affected by caregivers economic burden. High quality research is needed in order to identify factors associated with quality of life over time and testing the efficacy of interventions aiming to improve quality of life in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia.
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Samapti A Debsikdar, Nitin P Patil, Sachin U Ghatge
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