Nutritional and psychological evaluation of patients with schizophrenia at the benha mental health hospital

Abstract EN

This study aimed to assess the nutritional and psychological status of patients with schizophrenia.

To achieve the objectives of this study, a sample of (50 patients in the depression group and 50 healthy volunteers in the control group) was identified.

The social status was tested where the ratio appeared between the social status, the economic status, the financial income of schizophrenia patients, and the health status of schizophrenia patients, as they were divided into (outward appearance injuries, body scratches, and congenital disabilities) (50: 30: 20).

The health status of people with schizophrenia, where the health status was divided into (myopia, myopia, diabetes, thinness, obesity, liver disease) and the result appeared (16: 16: 54; 14) and was found that people with schizophrenia are obese by 54% .

The fifth axis divided the cause of psychological injury (genetic factors, social factors), and the percentage was (8% : 92% ).

The sixth and final axis was divided into social factors (family problems, medications).

The percentages were (70% : 30).

Regarding the nutritional status of schizophrenic patients, we note a variation in the nutritional status between males and females, where the intake of both males and females differed from that of females: animal fats, animal protein, vegetable protein, vegetable fats, and carbohydrates 25.25, 8.41, 17.79, 5.93, 16.46, 5.49 and 27.29, 9.12, 137.97, and 45.99 for males and females, respectively.