Abstract

Relapse among schizophrenic patients is a major challenge for mental health service providers in Egypt. Relapse has negative consequences and it can affect to patients, their families, the mental health care providers and the country's economy. This study aimed to explore the correlates of relapse as perceived by schizophrenic patients. A descriptive correlational design was utilized in this study. Three tools were utilized; the socio-demographic data sheet, the patient's medical data sheet and the relapse factors questionnaire that was developed by the researchers. A purposive sample of 90 schizophrenic patients was recruited in the current study. The study was carried out at Psychiatric Medicine and Addiction Prevention Hospital – El Manial University Hospital. The results revealed that the majority of the sample agreed that the social stigma related factors, and lack of rehabilitation services in the community, in addition to decreased patient's compliance with the medications were the most reported factors for relapse. However, the multiple regression analysis showed that there were no significant relationships among patient's socio-demographic or medical data and their relapse. The study concluded that, many factors can interfere with the recovery process of schizophrenic patients such as, lack of social and community support, non compliance to medication, and stigma. The study recommended that applying the mental health education and provision of effective and accessible community mental health services can help in reducing the relapse among schizophrenic patients.

Highlights

  • Schizophrenia is a constant extreme issue described by wrecking signs and side effects, for example, visualizations, hallucinations, disarranged correspondence, and lack of common sense, lessened inspiration, and blunted influence [1]

  • Schizophrenia takes after a variable course, with finish symptomatic and social recuperation in around 33% of cases

  • The purpose of this study was to explore the correlates to relapse as perceived by schizophrenic patients

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Introduction

Schizophrenia is a constant extreme issue described by wrecking signs and side effects, for example, visualizations, hallucinations, disarranged correspondence, and lack of common sense, lessened inspiration, and blunted influence [1]. Relapse has been accounted to happen with schizophrenia even while on treatment [2]. "Relapse has been characterized as an intensifying of psychopathological manifestations or re-hospitalization in the year after hospital release" [3]. Schizophrenia takes after a variable course, with finish symptomatic and social recuperation in around 33% of cases. Schizophrenia can take after an incessant or intermittent course, with leftover manifestations and deficient social recuperation. People with chronic schizophrenia constituted an expansive extent of all occupants of mental establishments in the past and still do where these organizations exist [4]

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