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Title: | Influencia de la percepción de apoyo y del funcionamiento social en la calidad de vida de pacientes con esquizofrenia y sus cuidadores |
Author: | Gutiérrez Maldonado, José Caqueo-Urízar, Alejandra Ferrer, Marta (Ferrer García) Fernández-Dávila, Paula |
Keywords: | Esquizofrènia Qualitat de vida Cuidadors Família Schizophrenia Quality of life Caregivers Family |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Oviedo y el Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias |
Abstract: | Perception of social support and functioning of patients with schizophrenia and their primary caregivers and its relationship to quality of life are described. Forty-five patients and their 45 relatives, treated at the Mental Health Services in Arica, Chile, participated. Both patients and caregivers in the study have a poor perception of social support with regard to extra-family people, as well as a low social integration. However, patients showed adequate capacity to function within their immediate family. Unlike what was found in developed countries, these patients showed moderate levels of quality of life, with a strong relationship with perceptions of the social support they receive from family and significant others and the ability to establish and maintain social contacts. Quality of life of primary caregivers is linked to patients´ ability to establish and maintain social contacts within the family group, as in other social instances, such as keeping a job. The results of the study suggest the need to consider the design and application of programs of support for these patients and their caregivers, with the central aim of the social functioning of the above-mentioned patients and their familiar and community integration. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.psicothema.com/pdf/4008.pdf |
It is part of: | Psicothema, 2012, vol. 24, num. 2, p. 255-262 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/43847 |
ISSN: | 0214-9915 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Clínica i Psicobiologia) |
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