جودة الحياة لدى عينة من مرضى الفصام المقيمين في مستشفيات الطب النفسي في المجتمع اليمني

Abstract EN

This study examined the quality-of-life level among schizophrenic patients residing in psychiatric hospitals in Sana’a, in view of some demographic variables.

The sample consisted of (170) schizophrenic patients (113 males and 57 females).

To achieve that, the WHOQOL-BREF was used.

Results showed that quality of life was higher than the hypothetical mean of the overall quality of life, including its physical, psychological, and social domains, and less than the hypothetical mean regarding the environmental quality of life, where the domains of quality of life were ordered as follows: social, physical, psychological, and environmental.

There were also no statistically significant differences in the overall quality of life and the subdomains according to gender, and in the overall quality of life and its domains (physical, psychological and environmental) according to marital status.

Furthermore, there were statistically significant differences in the quality of social life in favor of married patients and in the overall quality of life and its sub-domains according to education, in favor of university education.

There were statistically significant differences in the overall quality of life and its domains (psychological and environmental) according to the job variable, in favor of those who do not work, but no statistically significant differences in the physical and social domains of quality life were reported.