1 Nursing Department, Baghdad Nursing School, Medical City hospital, Bab Al- Muadhum, Baghdad/Iraq.
2 Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Nursing Faculty, University of Babylon, Hillah, Iraq.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2017 Nov;63(7):641-648. doi: 10.1177/0020764017725770. Epub 2017 Aug 24.
Gender differences are one of the most important and crucial subjects in evaluating the nursing care as well as mental health care system for psychiatric patients especially patients with schizophrenia.
We aimed to identify differences in needs of male and female patients with schizophrenia in psychiatric hospitals in Baghdad city and its relationship with some variables.
A descriptive, analytical design that was carried out by using Camberwell needs assessment, short appraisal schedule, self-report version (CANSAS-P) after translating to Arabic.
Results indicated that there were a lot of unmet needs of male and female patients with schizophrenia, according to the entire CANSAS-P domains especially psychological symptoms. Differences were found in types of needs as the majority of men have more social needs while females was found to be more occupied with their fears and need safety.
there were differences in types of need between male and female patients with schizophrenia; needs were affected by some variables such as educational level, first 10 days of admission and family visiting.
性别差异是评估精神病患者，尤其是精神分裂症患者的护理和心理健康护理系统的最重要和最关键的主题之一。
我们旨在确定巴格达市精神病院男性和女性精神分裂症患者的需求差异，并研究其与某些变量之间的关系。
采用描述性、分析性设计，使用 Camberwell 需要评估、短期评估量表、自我报告版本（CANSAS-P）进行评估，评估前先翻译成阿拉伯语。
结果表明，男性和女性精神分裂症患者存在大量未满足的需求，根据整个 CANSAS-P 领域，特别是心理症状。在需求类型方面存在差异，大多数男性有更多的社会需求，而女性则更多地关注自己的恐惧和安全需求。
精神分裂症男性和女性患者的需求类型存在差异；需求受到一些变量的影响，如教育水平、入院前 10 天和家庭探视。
