[Perception of everyday life by schizophrenic patients and nurses: content analysis of patients' speech on different domains of quality of life].
BACKGROUND
The validation of a questionnaire of subjective quality of life was used as pretext to question the way in which various fields of the everyday life were understood by schizophrenic subjects and nursing team members. Content analysis allowed the development of logico-semantic categories shared by the two populations and likely to give body to the subjacent social representations.


METHODS
Patients were asked to comment on the different items of the SQUALA. Patients' and nurses' answers for each item were grouped and the analysis was conducted on this corpus. For each item, the different points of view were summarised into categories of signification.


RESULTS
The results are presented item by item. The most important points are the followings: perceived health, physical autonomy, mental well-being and safety are linked to social and relational aspect of patients' life. Abstract concepts could be questioned among schizophrenic patients. It was possible to establish coherent categories. The analysis of certain unclassifiable statements makes it possible to specify phenomenological aspects of the schizophrenic experience.


CONCLUSIONS
Methodological limitations of this study are essentially due to content analysis methodology (standardisation of answers, choice of categories) and to the characteristics of the populations selected.
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Psychiatre, Praticien Hospitalier, CHU Pasteur, Clinique de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie Médicale, 30, avenue de la Voie romaine, BP 69, 06002 Nice cedex 1, France.
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D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D033262:Narration; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012660:Semantics; D012919:Social Behavior; D014705:Verbal Behavior