Jana Amlan Kusum, Ram Daya, Praharaj Samir Kumar
KPC Medical College & Hospiital, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India.
Community Ment Health J. 2014 Aug;50(6):697-701. doi: 10.1007/s10597-014-9729-4. Epub 2014 May 3.
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.
