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Symptoms, standards of living and subjective quality of life: a comparative study of schizophrenic and depressed out‐patients
Author(s) -
Carpiniello B.,
Lai G.,
Pariante C. M.,
Carta M. G.,
Rudas N.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1997.tb10157.x
Subject(s) - quality of life (healthcare) , depression (economics) , psychology , clinical psychology , depressive symptoms , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , cognition , psychotherapist , economics , macroeconomics
The subjective quality of life (QOL) (i.e. individual evaluation of one's life experiences) has been studied according to a series of different parameters such as resource availability, and sociodemographic and clinical variables, at times yielding contradictory results. Subjective quality of life and standard of life from a selected sample of 45 chronic out‐patients (25 schizophrenics, and 20 patients with major depression) were evaluated by means of structured interviews. Statistical analysis revealed that subjective QOL was largely independent of standard of living (so long as basic needs were satisfied), diagnosis, and clinical course of illness, and only partly dependent on sociodemographic variables. No correlation was found between clinically evaluated symptoms (both psychotic and depressive) and subjective QOL. On the contrary, significant correlations were found between self‐ratings of depression, depressive cognitive attitudes and subjective ratings of QOL.