Middle East Current Psychiatry 2011, 18:72–77 Introduction In Arab countries, epidemiological data about the ways of coping with general day stresses in schizophrenic patients and their quality of life are scarce. This study sought to determine whether there was a difference in ways of coping with stress and quality of life of schizophrenic patients attending the Baljurashi Psychiatric Hospital...

Complete blood count (CBC) test is one of the recommended tools to demonstrate the prevalence of unhealthy lifestyle and poor diet. The objective of this work was to employ the hemoglobin level as a tool to evaluate the quality of lifestyle and diet of schizophrenic patients in Palestine. Cross sectional study was conducted at governmental primary psychiatric health care centers in northern Wes...

background: hyperlipidemia and overweight are more common problems in schizophrenic patients. in several studies showed the mortality in schizophrenic patients more than the general population. one of the most common problems is overweight. body mass index (bmi) more than 30 is also associated with the use of antipsychotic drugs in patients. this study was assessed to understand the association...

Background: Schizophrenia is a disorder with psychotic symptoms that severely affects personal performance. Assessing problem- focused strategies and quality of life (QoL) in patients with schizophrenia may help the clinicians to use appropriate interventions. This study was conducted to find the relationship between problem-focused coping strategies and quality of life in schizophrenic patient...

RESTING-STATE HYPERCONNECTIVITY OF THE ANTICORRELATED INTRINSIC NETWORKS IN SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS AND THEIR UNAFFECTED SIBLINGS. Yoshio Kaneko and Zhening Liu. Department of Psychiatry, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China. (Sponsored by Robert Rohrbaugh, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine). Abnormal connectivity of the intrinsic a...

The purpose of this study has been to describe motor activity data obtained by using wrist-worn actigraphs in patients with schizophrenia and major depression by the use of linear and non-linear methods of analysis. Different time frames were investigated, i.e., activity counts measured every minute for up to five hours and activity counts made hourly for up to two weeks. The results show that ...