Abstract:
Abstract
Background: Schizophrenia is one of the disabling mental disorders which
affect individuals thinking ability, social interaction or attention. It affects
person entire QOL. QOL is important for every person. This study was focused
on to find out the QOL of schizophrenic patient in Bangladesh.
Objectives: The objectives were to determine the effect of schizophrenia
regarding physical and psychological health, social relationship and
environmental health among schizophrenic patient.
Methodology: Cross sectional survey design of quantitative method was used
to conduct this study. The convenience sampling procedure was used
throughout the process of participant‟s selection. The study was carried out at
NIMH & H. Eighty three (83) participants were selected to complete the
research. Data was collected by using face to face interview with a structured
questionnaire and data was analysed by using the SPSS, version 17.
Result and Discussion: It was found that most of the participants lead poor to
moderate QOL in four domains of the WHOQOL-Bref scale. Total mean
scores were for physical health (mean 2.7; SD +0.106); psychological health
(mean 2.108; SD +0.0787); social relationship (mean 2.226; SD +0.116) and
environmental health (mean 2.47; SD +0.077). In this study, schizophrenic
patient‟s QOL poor on psychological domain in Bangladesh. It was also found
statistically significance with age and social relationship domain (p value
0.005< 0.05); marital status and physical health domain (p value 0.004< 0.05);
educational level and physical health domain (p value 0.005< 0.05) and
environmental health domain (p value 0.025< 0.05). There were no statistically
significant difference between gender and other variables.
Conclusion: Schizophrenia affects all aspects of person‟s life such as
physically, psychologically, socially and economically. Schizophrenic patient
as well as their family member led very poor quality of life.
