Korean J Schizophr Res.  2024 Oct;27(2):63-71. 10.16946/kjsr.2024.27.2.63.

Factors Influencing the Personal Recovery in Outpatients With Schizophrenia

• Kim JG
• Kim CK

• KMID: 2560356
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.16946/kjsr.2024.27.2.63

Abstract

Objectives
This study aims to quantitatively investigate factors influencing personal recovery in patients with schizophrenia.
Methods
This study included 168 outpatients treated for schizophrenia. Patients’ sociodemographic factors (sex, age, education, and marital status), clinical factors (duration of illness, number of hospitalizations, and dose of drug), symptoms, behavior and symptoms, physical and mental health, family attitude, social support, attitude toward drug therapy, insight, self-esteem, hopelessness, and self-stigma were analyzed. The analysis included these 17 factors as explanatory variables for personal recovery to perform regression analysis.
Results
Backward elimination was used to select variables, and multiple regression analysis was performed. The five factors (symptoms, self-esteem, insight, physical, and mental health, and social support) accounted for 75.8% of the variance in patients’ perceived willingness for personal recovery.
Conclusion
Personal recovery in schizophrenic patients is very important because it means subjective satisfaction and quality of life in society. In this study, social support was the most important variable in predicting personal recovery. These results imply that not only symptoms but also various factors including social support should be emphasized when establishing a recovery strategy for schizophrenic patients.

Keyword

Insight; Physical and mental health; Recovery; Schizophrenia; Self-esteem; Social support; Symptoms; 병식; 사회적 지지; 신체적 정신적 건강; 자존감; 조현병; 증상; 회복

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