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A comparative study of quality of life and disability among schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder patients in remission

BACKGROUND: Persons with long-term psychiatric disorders have greater deficits in living skills as well as greater problems in employment and relationship to their social environment. Thus, chronic psychiatric illnesses have psychosocial consequences such as disability and impaired quality of life (...

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Autores principales: Swain, Sarada Prasanna, Behura, Sushree Sangita
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28659702
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_94_15
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description BACKGROUND: Persons with long-term psychiatric disorders have greater deficits in living skills as well as greater problems in employment and relationship to their social environment. Thus, chronic psychiatric illnesses have psychosocial consequences such as disability and impaired quality of life (QOL) due to their symptomatology and chronic course. OBJECTIVES: Assessment and comparison of disability and QOL of patients suffering from schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in remission phase. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study carried out in the psychiatry outpatient Department of Mental Health Institute, S.C.B. Medical College and Neuropsychiatric Consultation Centre, Cuttack. The study sample consisted of fifty cases of each groups (schizophrenia and OCD), which included both males and females. All of them were assessed through the World Health Organization-QOL BREF and Indian Disability Evaluation and Assessment Scale. RESULTS: Results revealed that schizophrenics have poor QOL and greater disability burden than patients of OCD. CONCLUSION: These psychiatric illnesses, i.e. schizophrenia and OCD, affect all areas of daily functioning leading to greater disability, and thus increasing the burden on the family, imposing greater challenges for the rehabilitation of these patients and their inclusion in the mainstream of the family and society.
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spelling pubmed-54790962017-06-28 A comparative study of quality of life and disability among schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder patients in remission Swain, Sarada Prasanna Behura, Sushree Sangita Ind Psychiatry J Original Article BACKGROUND: Persons with long-term psychiatric disorders have greater deficits in living skills as well as greater problems in employment and relationship to their social environment. Thus, chronic psychiatric illnesses have psychosocial consequences such as disability and impaired quality of life (QOL) due to their symptomatology and chronic course. OBJECTIVES: Assessment and comparison of disability and QOL of patients suffering from schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in remission phase. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study carried out in the psychiatry outpatient Department of Mental Health Institute, S.C.B. Medical College and Neuropsychiatric Consultation Centre, Cuttack. The study sample consisted of fifty cases of each groups (schizophrenia and OCD), which included both males and females. All of them were assessed through the World Health Organization-QOL BREF and Indian Disability Evaluation and Assessment Scale. RESULTS: Results revealed that schizophrenics have poor QOL and greater disability burden than patients of OCD. CONCLUSION: These psychiatric illnesses, i.e. schizophrenia and OCD, affect all areas of daily functioning leading to greater disability, and thus increasing the burden on the family, imposing greater challenges for the rehabilitation of these patients and their inclusion in the mainstream of the family and society. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5479096/ /pubmed/28659702 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ipj.ipj_94_15 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Industrial Psychiatry Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr A comparative study of quality of life and disability among schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder patients in remission
title_full_unstemmed A comparative study of quality of life and disability among schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder patients in remission
title_short A comparative study of quality of life and disability among schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder patients in remission
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