Living with schizophrenia: Perspectives of Turkish people with schizophrenia from two Patient Associations on how the illness affects their lives

2019-03-01
Karancı, Ayşe Nuray
Kumpasoğlu, Güler Beril
Can, Demet
Cakir, Ekin
Karaaslan, Cemrenur
Semerci, Mine
Tuzun, Duygu
Show full item record
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
60
views
0
downloads
Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness affecting the social and occupational lives of the sufferers and posing a considerable burden on the patients and their families. Furthermore, negative societal reactions and the internalization of these attitudes exacerbate the difficulties encountered. This study examines the perspectives of Turkish people with schizophrenia on how they view the impact of the illness on their lives, the societal reactions and attitudes to schizophrenia and whether they agree with these reactions. Methods: Twenty-three adult participants, all members of two schizophrenia associations in Ankara, capital of Turkey, were recruited. Semistructured interviews were used to find out their perspectives on how the illness affected their lives, how the society reacts to them and their views on these reactions. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and thematic analysis was used to capture the general and the subthemes. Results: The findings suggest that causal attributions for the illness, the impact of illness on various life domains, challenges of living with the illness and finally stigmatization are general categories that capture the perspectives of the participants. Conclusion: People diagnosed with schizophrenia experience the impacts and burdens of their illness in various domains of their lives and negative societal reactions heighten these burdens. It seems important to consider the challenges faced by people with schizophrenia in living with their illness and the impacts of negative societal behaviors and attitudes in offering psychosocial interventions programs for supporting this group. Furthermore, combating negative societal attitudes also seems to be necessary.
Schizophrenia, Impact of illness, Challenges faced, Stigmatization
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30548
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

Suggestions

What is related to the well-being of the siblings of patients with schizophrenia: An evaluation within the Lazarus and Folkman's Transactional Stress and Coping Model
Avcioglu, Muazzez Merve; Karancı, Ayşe Nuray; Soygur, Haldun (2019-05-01)
Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that strongly affects not only the patients with schizophrenia, but also their families and close relatives. So far, family research on patients with schizophrenia has mainly focused on parents, but has neglected siblings. Aim: This study aims to evaluate the well-being of 103 siblings of patients with schizophrenia within the Lazarus and Folkman's Transactional Coping and Stress Model. Materials: A Sociodemographic Information Form, Subjective Well-bein...
The explanatory relationship among self-esteem, problem solving, ways of coping, social support and suicidal ideation of patients with schizophrenia
Alınmış, Raziye Kıvılcım; Fışıloğlu, Hürol; Department of Psychology (2011)
This study aimed to explore the relationship among self-esteem, problem solving ability, ways of coping, social support and suicidal ideation of patients with schizophrenia and the differences between these variables according to the existence of suicide attempt of the patients with schizophrenia. In order to analyse the relationship and find out the differences among patients who did and did not attempt suicide, Rosenberg's Self Esteem Scale, Problem Solving Inventory, Turkish Ways of Coping Inventory, Mul...
Social support perceptions of Turkish people with schizophrenia: What helps and what doesn't help
Karancı, Ayşe Nuray; Gök, Ali Can; Borhan, Nilsu (2017-11-01)
Background: Social support is an important facilitator of the quality of life for people with schizophrenia. This study examines what is perceived as helpful and unhelpful support from the members of the natural social networks by 32 Turkish people with schizophrenia.
Effective connectivity model differences of emotion regulation in major depressive disorder: dynamic causal modeling analysis
Özaydın, Mustafa; Çakır, Murat Perit; Department of Cognitive Sciences (2021-9)
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a mental disorder and one of the most critical and prevalent disorders in the world. Unlike other diseases, the diagnosis of mental disorders does not easily conform to objective tests. Medical experts consider several indicators to be able to distinguish a depressed person from a normal individual, and finding robust markers to aid diagnosis is still an active area of research. The recent proliferation of neuroimaging methods has brought up new opportunities in that regar...
Investigation of schizophrenia related genes and pathways through genome wide association studies
Döm, Hüseyin Alper; Aydın Son, Yeşim; Department of Bioinformatics (2013)
Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder that is commonly characterized as deterioration of intellectual process and emotional responses and affects 1% of any given population. SNPs are single nucleotide changes that take place in DNA sequences and establish the major percentage of genomic variations. In this study, our goal was to identify SNPs as genomic markers that are related with schizophrenia and investigate the genes and pathways that are identified through the analysis of SNPs. Genome wide associ...
Citation Formats
A. N. Karancı et al., “Living with schizophrenia: Perspectives of Turkish people with schizophrenia from two Patient Associations on how the illness affects their lives,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY, pp. 98–106, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30548.
METU IIS - Integrated Information Service open@metu.edu.tr