Swain Sarada Prasanna, Behura Sushree Sangita
Centre of Excellence, Mental Health Institute, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
Neuropsychiatric Consultation Centre, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2016 Jul-Dec;25(2):210-215. doi: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_94_15.
Persons with long-term psychiatric disorders have greater deficits in living skills as well as greater problems in employment and relationship to their social environment. Thus, chronic psychiatric illnesses have psychosocial consequences such as disability and impaired quality of life (QOL) due to their symptomatology and chronic course.
Assessment and comparison of disability and QOL of patients suffering from schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in remission phase.
A cross-sectional study carried out in the psychiatry outpatient Department of Mental Health Institute, S.C.B. Medical College and Neuropsychiatric Consultation Centre, Cuttack. The study sample consisted of fifty cases of each groups (schizophrenia and OCD), which included both males and females. All of them were assessed through the World Health Organization-QOL BREF and Indian Disability Evaluation and Assessment Scale.
Results revealed that schizophrenics have poor QOL and greater disability burden than patients of OCD.
These psychiatric illnesses, i.e. schizophrenia and OCD, affect all areas of daily functioning leading to greater disability, and thus increasing the burden on the family, imposing greater challenges for the rehabilitation of these patients and their inclusion in the mainstream of the family and society.
患有长期精神疾病的人在生活技能方面存在更大缺陷，在就业以及与社会环境的关系方面也存在更多问题。因此，慢性精神疾病由于其症状和病程会产生心理社会后果，如残疾和生活质量（QOL）受损。
评估和比较处于缓解期的精神分裂症患者和强迫症（OCD）患者的残疾情况和生活质量。
在SCB医学院心理健康研究所精神病门诊部和科塔克神经精神咨询中心进行了一项横断面研究。研究样本包括每组五十例（精神分裂症和强迫症），涵盖男性和女性。所有患者均通过世界卫生组织生活质量简表（WHO-QOL BREF）和印度残疾评估量表进行评估。
结果显示，精神分裂症患者的生活质量比强迫症患者差，残疾负担也更重。
这些精神疾病，即精神分裂症和强迫症，会影响日常功能的各个方面，导致更大的残疾，从而增加家庭负担，给这些患者的康复及其融入家庭和社会主流带来更大挑战。
