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Health-related quality of life in older patients with schizophrenia and other psychoses — relationships among psychosocial and psychiatric factors
Author(s)	Thomas L Patterson, William Shaw, Shirley J Semple
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 4,, April 1997
Pages	pp 452-461
Keywords	Schizophrenia ; Psychoses ; Well being ; Informal care ; Mathematical models ; United States of America.
Annotation	In this study of quality of well-being of 70 patients with schizophrenia and other psychoses (mean age 58), the authors assessed environmental stressors, satisfaction with emotional support, coping responses and psychiatric symptoms. A conceptual model was tested and modified using path analytic techniques. Preliminary analyses suggested that psychosocial environment (life events, coping and emotional support) was primarily a product of psychiatric symptoms. Therefore, psychiatric symptoms preceded psychosocial environment variables in the proposed model. Further results suggested that depression mediated all the the effects of psychotic symptoms on social maladjustment, but not all their effects on well-being.
Accession Number	CPA-970807233 A
Classmark	ELK: EL: D:F:5HH: P6: 3LM: 7T
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