Quality of Life and Resilience among Patients with Schizophrenia

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a severe and debilitating disorder, which affects general health, functioning, autonomy, subjective well being, and life satisfaction of those who suffer from it. It had impact on the life and coping of schizophrenic patient. Therefore, this study aimed to assess quality of life and resilience among patients with schizophrenia. A descriptive research design was selected for this study. A purposive sample consisted of one hundred and twenty patients suffering from schizophrenia attended the outpatient clinic of El-Abassia mental health hospital were used. Three tools of data collection were used, the first was sociodemographic questionnaire of patients with schizophrenia, the second was the schizophrenia quality of life scale revision four (SQLS-R4) to assess quality of life of patient with schizophrenia ,and the third was the Connor- Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) to assess person ability to cope with stress and adversity. The main results showed that, there was a highly statistically significant relation between quality of life and sociodemographic characteristics of patients with schizophrenia regarding their sex, educational level and residence. And there was a highly statistically significant relation between resilience and socio- demographic characteristics of patients with schizophrenia regarding their age, sex, educational level and occupation. Also, there was a highly positive significant correlation between quality of life and resilience among patients with schizophrenia. This study recommended that, implementing of counseling intervention for promoting resilience among patients with schizophrenia