CORRELATES TO RELAPSE AS PERCEIVED BY SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS
Zeinab A.Abdelsalam1, Naglaa M. Gaber2
1&2 Lecturers of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing- Faculty of Nursing- Cairo University Abstract
Relapse among schizophrenic patients is a major challenge for mental health service providers in Egypt. Relapse has negative consequences and it can affect to patients, their families, the mental health care providers and the country's economy. This study aimed to explore the correlates of relapse as perceived by schizophrenic patients. A descriptive correlational design was utilized in this study. Three tools were utilized; the socio-demographic data sheet, the patient's medical data sheet and the relapse factors questionnaire that was developed
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Significance of the study
The Egyptian literature has very few studies in respect to relapse and schizophrenia. None of these studies have investigated the patient's own perspective on the factors that may cause the relapse. Relapse in schizophrenia has a great deal of impacts to patients, caregivers, the wellbeing sector and the nation's economy.
Additionally, this study will add to the body of nursing knowledge about the Egyptian schizophrenic patients' perspective of the relapse related factors. The study will shade the light on a combination of various factors such as the patients' socio-demographic and medical data and how they are associated with the patient's relapse.
Aim of the
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This age indicates that schizophrenia affects the productiveness and QOL of individuals. this can be due to schizophrenia as a chronic incapacity illness in which maximum sufferers experience common intervals of psychotic exacerbation and relapse. Relapse in schizophrenia can be associated with progressive functional deterioration, declining treatment reaction, worsen clinical outcome and escalating caregiver burden.
As regards the studied pattern topics’ house, greater than half of of them were from urban regions in Egypt and that was consistent This end result can be due to the increased mental contamination stigma in rural regions in Egypt that would affect the patient help searching for behaviors who then end up hesitant to go to any psychiatric facility.
This locating may be because of intellectual illness is typically bring about impaired communication and therefore lead to impaired social interaction. This finding become additionally supported through Huxley and Thornicroft, , (2003) talked about that the character of mental contamination, fitness troubles and discrimination towards them could cause interpersonal relationships to go to pot, main to reduced social contacts. they may be not likely to have any close friends and lots of may additionally have no one to turn to for