@article{ref1,
title="Schizophrenia and quality of life: how important are symptoms and functioning?",
journal="International journal of mental health systems",
year="2010",
author="Galuppi, Anna and Turola, Maria Cristina and Nanni, Giulia Maria and Mazzoni, Paola and Grassi, Luigi",
volume="4",
number="1",
pages="1-8",
abstract="OBJECTIVE the relationship between Quality of life (QoL) and global functioning and symptoms in outpatients with Schizophrenia Method The study was carried out on the outpatients with schizophrenia attending a Community Mental Health Centre in 2008. Each patient completed the WHO QoL Instrument - Brief and was administered the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-24 to assess psychiatric symptoms and the VADO Personal and social Functioning Scale to assess the level of functioning. <br><br>RESULTS subjects showed an intermediate satisfaction on the overall QoL and health; these data can be juxtaposed to the national standard sample rates. QoL resulted positively associated to personal and social functioning, while it was negatively related to psychiatric symptoms. <br><br>CONCLUSION patients showed a fairly good satisfaction in regard to their QoL. The severity of psychiatric symptoms is one of the elements influencing QoL, together with personal and social functioning that plays a relevant role.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1752-4458",
doi="10.1186/1752-4458-4-31",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-4-31"
}