PMID- 24644456
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140319
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1735-8639 (Print)
IS  - 1735-9287 (Electronic)
IS  - 1735-8639 (Linking)
VI  - 5
IP  - 2
DP  - 2011 Fall
TI  - Quality of Life and GAF in Schizophrenia Correlation Between Quality of Life and 
      Global Functioning in Schizophrenia.
PG  - 120-5
AB  - OBJECTIVE: Recently, quality of life is a concern of health in psychiatry. 
      Schizophrenia is a disorder that has the most regressive effects in societies' 
      and patients' behavioural, occupational and psychiatric aspects. The main purpose 
      of this study was to evaluate the quality of life and global function of 
      schizophrenia patients. METHODS: A hundred schizophrenia patients (with 
      DSM-IV-TR) who had a history of at least 10 years from the beginning of the 
      disorder were collected. Demographic characteristics, type of schizophrenia, 
      living condition and the quality of life scale (QLS) including: interpersonal 
      relationship, instrumental role, intra psychic foundations and common objects and 
      activities, were gathered. Patients' general functions were evaluated with Global 
      Assessment of Functioning (GAF). Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS 
      statistical software using Fisher's exact test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), 
      Dunken and Pearson's correlation test. RESULTS: In this study 67% of patients 
      were male and 51% were female. They were comprised of residual (55%), paranoid 
      (11%) and undifferentiated (33%) schizophrenia. They lived in institute (67%) and 
      with their families (28%). There was a moderate correlation between QLS and GAF 
      (p<0.01, r=0.2). A significant association was found between married and single 
      patients in instrumental role (F: 2.97), P<0.05) but there was not a significant 
      association in other domains. Correlation were found between undifferentiated and 
      paranoid patients in interpersonal relationship (F: 2.97), P<0.05). However there 
      weren't any correlation in intra psychic foundation and common objects and 
      activities domains. Also there were significant associations in GAF (F: 3.98), 
      P<0.05) between uneducated and educated participants. There was not an 
      association between the Mean of five domains and genders. CONCLUSION: 
      Schizophrenia patients' quality of life is low which shows the value and 
      reliability of Global Assessment Functioning that is usually used for every 
      psychiatrics' patients for V axis clinical diagnosis and indicated the clinical 
      value of this scale. For this reason rehabilitation, social skill training of 
      patients and supportive therapy in family are important.
FAU - Hosseini, Seyed-Hamzeh
AU  - Hosseini SH
AD  - Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center and Department of Psychiatry, 
      Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
FAU - Karkhaneh Yousefi, Mahtab
AU  - Karkhaneh Yousefi M
AD  - Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center and Department of Psychiatry, 
      Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci
JT  - Iranian journal of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
JID - 101524958
PMC - PMC3939971
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Global function
OT  - Quality of life
OT  - Schizophernia
EDAT- 2011/10/01 00:00
MHDA- 2011/10/01 00:01
PMCR- 2011/09/01
CRDT- 2014/03/20 06:00
PHST- 2010/05/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/05/25 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2011/10/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/03/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/10/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/10/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2011/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijpbs-005-120 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci. 2011 Fall;5(2):120-5.