Coping strategies among the long-term mentally ill: categorization and clinical determinants
| Autor: | T. Middelboe, E. L. Mortensen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Coping (psychology) Group Homes Separate analysis Personality Disorders Activities of Daily Living Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Psychiatry Internal-External Control Aged Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Mood Disorders Mentally ill Mental Disorders Behavior change Socialization Sick Role Cognition Middle Aged Community Mental Health Services Psychiatry and Mental health Categorization Chronic mental illness Schizophrenia Female Schizophrenic Psychology Psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. 96(3) |
| ISSN: | 0001-690X |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to explore strategies for coping with symptoms in 98 long-term mentally ill patients. The following characteristics of the strategies were investigated: level, effectiveness, target symptom and problem orientation. In addition, we studied the association between measures of coping and psychopathology. An average of 3.8 coping strategies per patient was reported, and strategies involving behavioural change were most common (48%), followed by changes in socialization (24%) and in cognitive control (15%). Coping efforts were most commonly directed towards non-psychotic symptoms. A high load of general and affective symptoms, few negative symptoms and a high level of illness awareness predicted the total number of coping strategies. Separate analysis of active and passive strategies, including increased and decreased socialization, respectively, revealed very different patterns of clinical predictors. These results are discussed with reference to community-care programmes. |
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