title: Empowerment and its associations in schizophrenia: a cross-sectional study.
abstract: Empowerment denotes a sense of personal competence which is considered an essential requisite of fair outcome in schizophrenia. The current study assessed empowerment along with other relevant variables in patients with schizophrenia and a comparison group. Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis identified independent living skills survey score and perceived social support as predicting empowerment in patients with schizophrenia, suggesting a correlational relationship. Empowerment could be a treatment goal in schizophrenia and independent living skills as well as perceived social support could be the mediating factors.
authors.affiliation: KPC Medical College & Hospiital, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India.
authors.forename: Amlan Kusum
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Jana
authors.forename: Daya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ram
authors.forename: Samir Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Praharaj
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012944:Social Support; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult