Assessment for Activities of Daily Living Among Schizophrenic Patients

Abstract

he term of schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Approximately one percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties, than in women, who are generally affected in the twenties to early thirties. Individuals with schizophrenia may manifest emotion-focused or avoidance coping, such as social withdrawal, which may be maladaptive in various circumstances. Adding to that, Activities of daily living as the components of every day activity including self-care work and play leisure activities. The will being by 25%, recent studies have encouraged combination of medical treatment along with mental social one in order to obtain long term improvement in self care, social skills behavioral problems and vocational skills for helping schizophrenic patients to deal with daily situations, and help patients return to normal life function to increase independent functions, enhance development and prevent disability, and face daily living challenges and encourages them to learn living with other people in the community or even at time with family. Also, activities of daily living are a skills effort to cope patients with disease, and minimize or tolerate stress or con