Korean J Schizophr Res.  2021 Apr;24(1):17-25. 10.16946/kjsr.2021.24.1.17.

Opinions on the Recovery of Outpatients with Schizophrenia and Their Wills to Recover

• Lee JM
• Kim CK

• KMID: 2515677
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.16946/kjsr.2021.24.1.17

Abstract

Objectives
To examine the opinions regarding recovery and assess their will to recover in outpatients with schizophrenia.
Methods
Total 98 stable outpatients with schizophrenia were enrolled. To investigate the outpatients’ opinions regarding recovery, we asked the subjects to write down the ways they could think they had recovered from their current disease. We classified their answers and chose final 39 statements. Using this questionnaire, they were asked to what extent they agreed with each statement. Moreover, the Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS) was used to measure the subjects’ will to recover.
Results
Many of the 39 subjects who were surveyed about their opinions on recovery agreed on 11 statements about taking medicine, social life, daily life, social functioning, positivity about life (happiness, hope, confidence, and tranquility), symptoms, occupation, and self-control. The RAS score showed a significant correlation with age (r=-0.26, p<0.01), age at onset (r=0.26, p<0.01), duration of illness (r=-0.52, p<0.01), and number of hospitalization (r=-0.46, p<0.01).
Conclusion
This study shows that positivity about life is an important part of the patients’ subjective recovery criteria in schizophrenia. Therefore, if clinicians pay more attention to this part of subjective recovery, it would strengthen the patients’ will for recovery.

Keyword

Recovery; Recovery assessment scale; Schizophrenia; Treatment outcome; 조현병; 치료결과; 회복; 회복평가척도

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