Quality of Life and Psychosocial Dysfunction among Person with Schizophrenia

Abstract

Psychosocial dysfunction is expressly relevant to psychiatric disorders. Psychosocial dysfunction and Quality of Life (QOL) of the person with schizophrenia is being disrupted due to several regions. Schizophrenia has a synergistically corrosive effect on quality of life of the affected person that extends far beyond clinical symptoms. The aim of the study was to assess and compare the quality of life among the person with Schizophrenia and the level of their psychosocial dysfunction as well as severity of illness, so that an effective prevention strategy could be formulated in further. This study is a cross-sectional study consists of 60 individuals diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Tools: Socio-demographic and clinical checklist, PANSS, WHO-Quality of Life Scale and Dysfunctional Analysis Questionnaire. The result indicates that there is no significant difference between the genders of persons diagnosed with Schizophrenia on variables viz. Quality of life, psychosocial dysfunction. There was a significant negative correlation between quality of life and psychosocial dysfunction also there were significant negative correlation between severity of illness and quality of life. There was significant positive correlation between severity of illness and psychosocial dysfunction.