A comprehensive study to find out the different factors affecting the prognosis of schizophrenic patients
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schizophrenia, psychotic, neurotic symptom, prognosis factorAbstract
Objective:The present study was undertaken to find out the different causative factors relating to the prognosis of various types of schizophrenic patients. Method: To accomplish the objectives of the current study all the subjects were taken from SCARF hospital and a total of 80 subjects were taken using the purposive sampling method which will involve taking samples from the population which is easily available or are easy to contact and were matched in age, sex and education and occupation. All the subject were the inhabitant of Chennai. General health questionnaire (GHQ-12), Mental Health Battery (MHB), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), and Multiphasic Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) were employed with each of the subjects in two sessions. Result:From Results of GHQ, it seen then scored above average and expressed less variability in scores. In EPQ subjects showed high score in psychoticism and in neuroticism, but average in introversion-extroversion. t-Test was also conducted and was found not significant. In MHB they score below average in all dimension. Correlation was done and was found that score of different dimensions is not related to each other.
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