Affiliation:
1. Resident Department of Psychiatry, Grant Govt. Medical college and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
2. Resident Department of Psychiatry, Grant Govt. Medical college and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, Maharshtra.
Abstract
Background: Few studies have examined the quality of life (QoL) for people with. It examined the level of
satisfaction with their QoL in people with schizophrenia had as well as the relationships between sociodemographic characteristics and QoL.
Aims: The present study aimed to evaluate the QOL in outpatients with schizophrenia.
Study Design: Cross-sectional study
Methodology:A cross-sectional study, in the form of an inquiry, was conducted in 400 outpatients, in the psychiatric department
after obtaining detailed written consent from the participants and permission from the ethics committee. We used the WHOQOL BREF.
Statistics: Categorical variables were analysed with the Chi-squared tests. Signicance levels for all analyses were set at P =
0.05.
Results: In this study, the data showed that among the 400 participants 84% were having a fair level of quality of life, 12% have a
satisfactory level of quality of life, and 4% of them were having a good quality of life.
Conclusions: The study revealed that the good and satisfactory quality of life of schizophrenic patients is associated with the
marital status, education status, occupation, joint family type, rural place of residence and correct follow-up and continuation
of the prescribed medicine and regular follow-ups is also important to improve the quality of life.