[Religiousness of patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia. Introductory studies].
OBJECTIVE
(1) The correlations between various aspects of religiousness and age, span of treatment, rate of therapy, anxiety-state, anxiety-trait, locus of control, and self-rating of the state of self-feeling, and the state of feeling of illness, and quality of life in the group of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and in the group of healthy persons, and (2) the comparison of various aspects of religiousness of patients with schizophrenia and healthy persons were studied. METHODS. The Individual Religiousness Scale, Scale of Christian Religiousness, Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Quest Religious Orientation Scales, Scale of Fundamentalism, Rotter's questionnaire of locus of control, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, visual analogy of self-feeling, visual analogy of feeling of illness, questionnaire of quality of life--WHOQOL-BREF--were used in the study. 61 adults of both sexes, 30 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia according to ICD-10 and DCR-10 in the diagnostic group and 31 healthy persons were studied. Groups were similar in the terms of age, sex, education, abode, social conditions, professional status, civil state and denomination.


RESULTS
It was noted, that: (1) intrinsic and extrinsic religiousness correlates with age in both groups and with span of treatment in the diagnostic group, but only intrinsic religiousness correlates with the rate of therapy; the locus of control increases with a decrease of orthodox religiousness in the diagnostic group and with ethical aspects of religion in the group of healthy individuals; state of anxiety is correlated backwards with orthodox religiousness in the diagnostic group; (2) patients diagnosed as having schizophrenia have a significantly higher level of extrinsic religiousness and fundamentalism than healthy individuals: (3) there was many results pointed out in bibliography, that had no verification in these studies.


CONCLUSIONS
The knowledge about the religiousness of schizophrenia patients can be important for the diagnostic and therapeutic process in this disorder, therefore further studies on these characteristics are necessary.
Tomczak
Piotr
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Zakład Terapii Rodzin Katedry Psychiatrii CM UJ.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland; D011788:Quality of Life; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index