Depression is a common illness worldwide and its burden is on the rise. It causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person's ability to function at work and home. The study aimed to assess the psychosocial functioning and quality of life among depressed patients. Design: A descriptive research design was used. Subjects and method: The convenient studied sample includes 70 patients with depressive disorders. Tools: Included structured interview questionnaire (Demographic and clinical characteristics), Beck depression inventory scale (BDI), Quality of Life Scale (QoL), Impairment function scale (SDS). Results: Depressed patients have highly impaired in their quality of life and poor functioning. Most depressed patients, have eht highest impairment in family life, followed by social life, and the last impairment was at work and school impairment. Conclusion: Depressed patients have a high level of social, physical, and cognitive functional impairment. Recommendation: Psychosocial intervention should be delivered to hospitalized depressed patients as an important way for improving their social functioning.
Quality of life (QoL) is often severely impaired in people with schizophrenia, and compliance to antipsychotic medication has been consistently found to be low in these people. Aim of the study to assess quality of life and its relation with treatment compliance among schizophrenic patients. Subjects & Method: A descriptive correlational research design was used in this study. Purposive sample was utilized, consisting of 110 patients who have schizophrenia and accepted to share in this study. Tools of the study include personal data, World Health organization Quality of Life Scale and Medication Adherence Rating Scale. Results: The majority of schizophrenic patients had fair level of quality of life and more than half of them are non-adherent with medication. A highly statistically significant difference was found between quality of life and medication adherence. The study Concluded that the majority of schizophrenic patients had fair level of quality of life and a highly statistically significant relation was found between quality of life and medication adherence (P=0.012(. Recommendation: Further studies are needed to investigate non compliance factors on larger sample size in different settings and different tools.
Background: Parent-adolescent conflict is complex and multifaceted construct as it includes any differences of opinions, whether it is negative or positive between parents. This study aimed to identify the parent-adolescents conflicts and its relation with their school achievement and self-esteem. A descriptive correlational research design was used. 1018 adolescents were recruited in this study. It was conducted at eight governmental preparatory schools, four schools in urban areas and four in rural areas in assiut governorate, Upper Egypt. Four tools were used for this study as demographic questionnaire for the adolescents and their parents, parent-adolescent issues checklist, adolescent self-esteem scale and adolescents' school achievement. Results indicated that the majority of the studied adolescents (93.6%) had conflict with their parents. The greater the conflict between adolescents and their parents, the higher the school achievements occurred, p=0.004. But there was no statistically significant relation between the adolescents' self-esteem and parent-adolescent conflict. Conclusion, the majority of adolescents had higher frequency of conflict issues but intensity of conflict was not severe with their parents. Parent-adolescent conflict had a positive effect on adolescent School achievement. The present study Recommended that, parents should be aware of physical, cognitive and psychosocial changes and needs of the adolescents to deal with their children positively. Periodical assessment should be done for self-esteem to all children in schools for early detection and management of any problem.
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