Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia

This is a cross sectional study examining quality of life in relation to coping styles among patients with Schizophrenia (N=92) in remission, from June 2002 to December 2002. Remission state is determined by Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). The psychiatric diagnosis was made by treating psy...

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Main Authors: Mohd Badli M, Osman CB, Ainsah O
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM 2008
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1996/
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spelling ukm-19962016-12-14T06:30:36Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1996/ Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia Mohd Badli M, Osman CB, Ainsah O, This is a cross sectional study examining quality of life in relation to coping styles among patients with Schizophrenia (N=92) in remission, from June 2002 to December 2002. Remission state is determined by Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). The psychiatric diagnosis was made by treating psychiatrist using the Clinical Interview Schedule for the DSM-IV Diagnosis. They are subsequently asked to complete demographic and clinical data questionnaire and followed by 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36) of the Medical Outcome Study (MOS) for the assessment of quality of life and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation (CISS). The QOL in term of overall mental health among patients with schizophrenia was significantly and positively associated with ethnic group (p<0.05), employment status, type of antipsychotic (p<0.05) and number of admission (p<0.05). Being Chinese and employed are associated with better QOL in term of overall mental health. The commonly used coping style among patients with Schizophrenia is the distraction component of avoidance-oriented coping. The task-oriented coping was significantly and positively correlated with quality of life in term of mental component. There was a negative correlation between the emotion-oriented coping and all the domain of the quality of life. In conclusion, better quality of life is positively correlated with taskoriented coping and inversely related with emotion-oriented coping Penerbit UKM 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1996/1/Page_14_-_21.pdf Mohd Badli M, and Osman CB, and Ainsah O, (2008) Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia. Medicine & Health, 3 (1). pp. 14-21. ISSN 1823-2140 http://www.ppukm.ukm.my/ukmmcjournal/index.php
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description This is a cross sectional study examining quality of life in relation to coping styles among patients with Schizophrenia (N=92) in remission, from June 2002 to December 2002. Remission state is determined by Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). The psychiatric diagnosis was made by treating psychiatrist using the Clinical Interview Schedule for the DSM-IV Diagnosis. They are subsequently asked to complete demographic and clinical data questionnaire and followed by 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36) of the Medical Outcome Study (MOS) for the assessment of quality of life and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation (CISS). The QOL in term of overall mental health among patients with schizophrenia was significantly and positively associated with ethnic group (p<0.05), employment status, type of antipsychotic (p<0.05) and number of admission (p<0.05). Being Chinese and employed are associated with better QOL in term of overall mental health. The commonly used coping style among patients with Schizophrenia is the distraction component of avoidance-oriented coping. The task-oriented coping was significantly and positively correlated with quality of life in term of mental component. There was a negative correlation between the emotion-oriented coping and all the domain of the quality of life. In conclusion, better quality of life is positively correlated with taskoriented coping and inversely related with emotion-oriented coping
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author Mohd Badli M,
Osman CB,
Ainsah O,
spellingShingle Mohd Badli M,
Osman CB,
Ainsah O,
Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia
author_facet Mohd Badli M,
Osman CB,
Ainsah O,
author_sort Mohd Badli M,
title Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia
title_short Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia
title_full Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia
title_fullStr Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia
title_full_unstemmed Coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia
title_sort coping styles and clinical factors in relation to quality of life among patients with schizophrenia
publisher Penerbit UKM
publishDate 2008
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1996/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1996/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1996/1/Page_14_-_21.pdf
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