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Associated Factors of Quality of Life in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients
OBJECTIVE: Improving quality of life is an important goal in the treatment of schizophrenia. In previous research, quality of life has been reported to be compromised in patients with schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to investigate whether quality of life may be impaired in first-episode sch...
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Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182384/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994506 http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2011.8.3.201 |
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author | Song, Yun Young Kim, Kyung Ran Park, Jin Young Lee, Su Young Kang, Jee In Lee, Eun An, Suk Kyoon Kwon, Jun Soo |
author_facet | Song, Yun Young Kim, Kyung Ran Park, Jin Young Lee, Su Young Kang, Jee In Lee, Eun An, Suk Kyoon Kwon, Jun Soo |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Improving quality of life is an important goal in the treatment of schizophrenia. In previous research, quality of life has been reported to be compromised in patients with schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to investigate whether quality of life may be impaired in first-episode schizophrenia patients and to identify the associated factors of quality of life in first-episode schizophrenia. METHODS: Forty-eight patients with first-episode schizophrenia and 20 normal controls were recruited. Quality of life was measured by using the Quality of Life scale (QLS). General and social self-efficacy, perceived social support were measured by using the self-report scales. The clinical assessments and comprehensive neurocognitive battery were also administered. RESULTS: First-episode group showed significantly decreased QLS total and QLS subscale scores compared to normal controls group. The key associated factors of quality of life in patients with first-episode schizophrenia were the negative symptoms and social self-efficacy. CONCLUSION: This finding implies that compromised quality of life may be already emerged in schizophrenia in their first-episode and the psychosocial interventions should be targeting the negative symptoms and the psychosocial protective factors including self-efficacy in addition to simply ameliorating the positive symptoms to foster social reintegration and recovery of first-episode patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-31823842011-10-12 Associated Factors of Quality of Life in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients Song, Yun Young Kim, Kyung Ran Park, Jin Young Lee, Su Young Kang, Jee In Lee, Eun An, Suk Kyoon Kwon, Jun Soo Psychiatry Investig Original Article OBJECTIVE: Improving quality of life is an important goal in the treatment of schizophrenia. In previous research, quality of life has been reported to be compromised in patients with schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to investigate whether quality of life may be impaired in first-episode schizophrenia patients and to identify the associated factors of quality of life in first-episode schizophrenia. METHODS: Forty-eight patients with first-episode schizophrenia and 20 normal controls were recruited. Quality of life was measured by using the Quality of Life scale (QLS). General and social self-efficacy, perceived social support were measured by using the self-report scales. The clinical assessments and comprehensive neurocognitive battery were also administered. RESULTS: First-episode group showed significantly decreased QLS total and QLS subscale scores compared to normal controls group. The key associated factors of quality of life in patients with first-episode schizophrenia were the negative symptoms and social self-efficacy. CONCLUSION: This finding implies that compromised quality of life may be already emerged in schizophrenia in their first-episode and the psychosocial interventions should be targeting the negative symptoms and the psychosocial protective factors including self-efficacy in addition to simply ameliorating the positive symptoms to foster social reintegration and recovery of first-episode patients. Korean Neuropsychiatric Association 2011-09 2011-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3182384/ /pubmed/21994506 http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2011.8.3.201 Text en Copyright © 2011 Korean Neuropsychiatric Association http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Song, Yun Young Kim, Kyung Ran Park, Jin Young Lee, Su Young Kang, Jee In Lee, Eun An, Suk Kyoon Kwon, Jun Soo Associated Factors of Quality of Life in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients |
title | Associated Factors of Quality of Life in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients |
title_full | Associated Factors of Quality of Life in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients |
title_fullStr | Associated Factors of Quality of Life in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Associated Factors of Quality of Life in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients |
title_short | Associated Factors of Quality of Life in First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients |
title_sort | associated factors of quality of life in first-episode schizophrenia patients |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182384/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21994506 http://dx.doi.org/10.4306/pi.2011.8.3.201 |
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