Quality of life assessment in Turkish patients with schizophrenia and their relatives.
Quality of life of first-degree relatives living in the same household with patients having schizophrenia has not been sufficiently explored. 30 patients with schizophrenia (16 women, 14 men), diagnosed using DSM-IV criteria, 31 of their relatives (15 women, 16 men), and 34 control subjects (21 women, 13 men) were included in the study. The mean age of the patients, their relatives, and the control subects were 39.8 +/- 10.9, 58.1 +/- 12.5 and 37.3 +/- 17.0, respectively. The World Health Oranization Quality of Life-Brief Form was administered to all subjects. Quality of life was worse for the patient group than for their relatives and control subjects, but relatives of the patients and control subjects were not significantly different on Quality of life. Quality of life was negatively correlated with the severity of psychopathology and extrapyramidal side effects induced by antipsychotic drugs in the patients.
Department of Psychiatry, Adnan Menderes University Medical School, Aydin, Turkey. koksal.alptekin@deu.edu.tr
Köksal
K
Alptekin
Berna Binnur
BB
Akdede
Yildiz
Y
Akvardar
Songül
S
Celikgün
N Sinem
NS
Dilşen
Güliz
G
Durak
Ayşe
A
Türk
Hüray
H
Fidaner
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D004409:Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014421:Turkey
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents