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Quality of life in schizophrenics with and without the deficit syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

R. Gourevitch ,
S. Abbadi  and
J.D. Guelfi
R. Gourevitch*
Affiliation:
Service Hospitalo-Universitaire (Prs Lôo & Olié), Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, 7, rue Cabanis, 75674 Paris cedex 14, France
S. Abbadi
Affiliation:
Service du Dr T. Bottai,C.H. de Martigues–Hôpital du Vallon, BP 248, 13698 Martigues cedex, France
J.D. Guelfi
Affiliation:
Clinique des Maladies Mentales et de l’Encéphale (CMME), Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, 100, rue de la Santé, 75674 Paris cedex 14, France
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: gourevitch@chsa.broca.inserm.fr (R. Gourevitch).
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Abstract

We investigated the relations between deficit as part of schizophrenic symptomatology and the popular but unclear concept of quality of life (QOL). In a 47-patient sample, subjective QOL was compared in schizophrenics with and without the deficit syndrome. Self- and hetero-rated QOL is more impaired in deficit patients. Differences between deficit and non-deficit groups are more significant as the index used for measuring QOL gets less “behavioral” and more “psycho-pathological”. These results are consistent with existing literature. The “behavioral” dimensions of Heinrichs’ quality of life scale (QLS) are less discriminative between deficit and non-deficit schizophrenics, but they are more independent of the symptoms. They might have a special clinical meaning, which needs to be defined. The concepts of QOL (as used in QLS) and deficit symptomatology are partially redundant. QLS might be an inappropriate, or at least un-specific measure of QOL.

Keywords

SchizophreniaQuality of lifeRating-scalesDeficit syndrome
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European Psychiatry , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , May 2004 , pp. 172 - 174
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Copyright © 2004 European Psychiatric Association

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