The Long-Term Changes in Coping Strategies in Schizophrenia
| Autor: | Michael S. Ritsner, Yael Ratner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Coping (psychology) Psychosis medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent Personality Inventory medicine.medical_treatment Emotions Severity of Illness Index Life Change Events Surveys and Questionnaires Adaptation Psychological Severity of illness medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies Prospective Studies Psychiatry Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Self-efficacy Rehabilitation Middle Aged medicine.disease Self Efficacy Hospitalization Psychiatry and Mental health Schizophrenia Female Schizophrenic Psychology Personality Assessment Inventory Psychology Social Adjustment Psychosocial Follow-Up Studies Clinical psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease. 194:261-267 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3018 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/01.nmd.0000207361.81947.52 |
| Popis: | This prospective study aimed to define the long-term changes in coping strategies used by schizophrenia patients and their relation to clinical and psychosocial factors. The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations, psychiatric scales, and self-report questionnaires were administered to 148 schizophrenia patients at admission and 16 months thereafter. Based on trends of individual coping patterns to show change over time, four temporal coping types were distinguished: stable favorable and unfavorable, and becoming favorable and unfavorable. We found that coping patterns of 62.2% of patients remained stable over time, became unfavorable among 19.6% of patients, and became favorable among 18.2% of patients. Each temporal coping type is associated with a specific pattern of changes in clinical and psychosocial variables. The findings underscore the clinical relevance of temporal coping types and corroborate the appropriateness of focusing on aspects of coping behavior in treatment and rehabilitation of schizophrenia patients. |
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