Abstract
This is a cross-sectional study that aims to identify the prevalence of lower independent living skills and their associations in 390 users of psychiatric community-based services in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. For tracing the outcome it was used the "scale Independent Living Skills Survey", adopting a cut-off value lower than 2. The crude and adjusted analyses were conducted on binary logistic regressions and they considered a hierarchical model developed through a systematic literature review. In adjusted analysis the level of the same variables were adjusted to each other and to previous levels. The statistical significance remained as a < 0.05 p-value. The prevalence of smaller independent living skills was 33% and their associations were: younger age; no partner; lower education; resident at SRT; diagnosis of schizophrenia and younger diagnosis.
Highlights
MethodologyBehavioral and mental disorders hit 450 million people over all countries, causing individual and social suffering
Since 1970s, in Brazil, the critic about the traditional psychiatric has changed the concept of caring object that were focused in the illnesses to an approach which overcomes the dichotomy between health/illnesses, individual/social, so the asylum model of caring was broke and replaced by a psychosocial rehabilitation perspective[2]
According to Pinho et al.[3] the transformation of psychiatric asylums practices into psychosocial rehabilitation resets itself as a knowledge that allows to consider the psychiatric disorder as one more data in the individual
Summary
MethodologyBehavioral and mental disorders hit 450 million people over all countries, causing individual and social suffering. According to World Health Organization around 25% of world population develop mental disorders during their lives and these mental disorders represents 12% of the world disease load[1] These disorders cause significant impacts in the social life which are composed by: economic responsibilities, psychosocial, Family life, individuals, ruptures and disorganization in everyday and job routines, lost of productivities and treatment expenses. According to Pinho et al.[3] the transformation of psychiatric asylums practices into psychosocial rehabilitation resets itself as a knowledge that allows to consider the psychiatric disorder as one more data in the individual There is this individual who has a severe and persistent disorder, but beyond that it lives in a territory, establishes social relations and is part of a particular family
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