Predictors of Functioning and Recovery Among Men and Women Veterans with Schizophrenia

Goodsmith, Nichole; Cohen, Amy N.; Pedersen, Eric R.; Evans, Elizabeth; Young, Alexander S.; Hamilton, Alison B.

doi:10.1007/s10597-022-00979-x

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“…However, a large number of studies have shown that newer antipsychotics have little or no effect on improving quality of life [ 29 ]. The impact of psychological interventions on improving patients has been confirmed by a large number of studies with very precise effects [ 30 ]. Some studies on psychological interventions for patients with somatic disorders have shown improved quality of life in patients who received psychological interventions [ 31 ].…”

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Application Research of Humanistic Care and Situational Integration in Nursing of Schizophrenia in Recovery Period

Zhang

2022

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Objective. To formulate corresponding nursing humanistic care measures according to the needs of patients, evaluate the intervention effect of patients, and provide reference for nursing staff to better provide nursing humanistic care for patients with schizophrenia in convalescence. Methods. Using the random number table method, 110 inpatients with convalescent schizophrenia were randomly divided into the control group (n = 55) and the experimental group (n = 55). The sample t-test was used to compare the changes of patient insight, treatment attitude, rehabilitation efficacy, and negative emotion score before and after nursing humanistic nursing intervention, and analyze the effect of nursing humanistic care intervention. Results. Nursing satisfaction: the nursing satisfaction of the experimental group increased from 84.6% to 96.2%, after intervention, satisfaction of the experimental group was 96.2% higher than that of 86.5% of the control group. Conclusion. Nursing intervention measures based on needs of nursing humanistic care can improve nursing satisfaction, insight and treatment attitude of patients, enhance recovery effect of patients, reduce negative emotions of patients, and benefit recovery of patients’ conditions.

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Application Research of Humanistic Care and Situational Integration in Nursing of Schizophrenia in Recovery Period

Zhang

2022

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“…Depending on place and time, there may be more available jobs for women with schizophrenia than for their male peers. In a recent paper about male and female veterans with schizophrenia in the U.S., female gender predicted higher occupational functioning, and this was irrespective of baseline symptom severity [26].…”

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Schizophrenia: A Review of Social Risk Factors That Affect Women

González-Rodríguez,

Natividad,

Seeman

et al. 2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Social risk factors are long-term or repeated environmental exposures in childhood and youth that change the brain and may, via epigenetic effects, change gene expression. They thus have the power to initiate or aggravate mental disorders. Because these effects can be mediated via hormonal or immune/inflammatory pathways that differ between men and women, their influence is often sex-specific. The goal of this narrative review is to explore the literature on social risk factors as they affect women with schizophrenia. We searched the PubMed and Scopus databases from 2000 to May 2023 using terms referring to the various social determinants of health in conjunction with “women” and with “schizophrenia”. A total of 57 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. In the domains of childhood and adult abuse or trauma, victimization, stigma, housing, and socioeconomics, women with schizophrenia showed greater probability than their male peers of suffering negative consequences. Interventions targeting appropriate housing, income support, social and parenting support, protection from abuse, violence, and mothering-directed stigma have, to different degrees, yielded success in reducing stress levels and alleviating the many burdens of schizophrenia in women.

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A longitudinal study on the effects of social support on self-stigma, psychiatric symptoms, and personal and social functioning in community patients with severe mental illnesses in China

Ma,

Chen,

Bai

et al. 2024

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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Background: Few studies have examined whether social support contributes to better consequences among chronic patients with severe mental illnesses (SMI) in their community recovery stage and whether self-stigma would be a mechanism through which social support impacts psychiatric symptoms and personal and social functioning. Aims: This study aimed to examine prospective associations of social support with long-term self-stigma, psychiatric symptoms, and personal and social functioning, and to investigate whether self-stigma would mediate the associations of social support with psychiatric symptoms and personal and social functioning among patients with SMI. Methods: A total of 312 persons with SMI (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) in their community recovery stage participated in the study. Social support, self-stigma, psychiatric symptoms, and personal and social functioning were evaluated at baseline. The follow-up assessment was conducted at 6 months with the baseline measures except for social support. Hierarchical linear regression and mediation analysis were performed. Results: The results showed that baseline social support predicted decreases in stigma (β = −.115, p = .029) and psychiatric symptoms (β = −.193, p < .001), and increases in personal and social functioning (β = .134, p = .008) over 6 months, after adjusting for relevant covariates. Stigma at 6 months partially mediated the association between baseline social support and 6-month psychiatric symptoms (indirect effect: β = −.043, CI [−0.074, −0.018]). Stigma and psychiatric symptoms at 6 months together mediated the association between baseline social support and 6-month personal and social functioning (indirect effect: β = .084, 95% CI [0.029, 0.143]). Conclusion: It is necessary to provide comprehensive social support services and stigma reduction interventions at the community level to improve the prognosis of SMI.

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Predictors of Functioning and Recovery Among Men and Women Veterans with Schizophrenia

Cited by 3 publications

References 41 publications

Application Research of Humanistic Care and Situational Integration in Nursing of Schizophrenia in Recovery Period

Application Research of Humanistic Care and Situational Integration in Nursing of Schizophrenia in Recovery Period

Schizophrenia: A Review of Social Risk Factors That Affect Women

A longitudinal study on the effects of social support on self-stigma, psychiatric symptoms, and personal and social functioning in community patients with severe mental illnesses in China

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