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Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.015
eISSN: 1857-9655
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Validation of the Schizophrenia
Quality of Life Scale Revision 4 (SQLS-R4) Among Patients with Schizophrenia
Viktor Isjanovski1*, Andromahi Naumovska1,
Dimitar Bonevski1, Antoni Novotni2
1Psychiatric Hospital “Skopje”, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia;
2Psychiatric Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius
University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
BACKGROUND: The main goal of psychiatric care is not to be focused
only on reducing psychopathological symptoms, but on improvement of the
patient's quality of life.
AIM: To examine validation and reliability SQLS-R4 among patients
with schizophrenia.
METHODS: The sample consisted of 61 outpatients with schizophrenia
attending the Psychiatry Hospital “Skopje”. Inclusion criteria for subject
selection were: 1) age more than 18 years, 2) clinically stable (not acutely
ill or has not been recently hospitalized at least for the past 3 months).
They completed SQLS-R4 and SF36 questioners.
RESULTS: The internal consistency reliability was satisfactory for
both the psychosocial and vitality domains (Cronbach’s α = 0.928, 0.83).
Most of the items were significantly correlated with own scale score (from
0.189 to 0.687). The average of the score for the psychosocial quality life
was 39.9 ± 8.6 (sometimes), for the cognition and vitality was 26.5 ± 6.1
(sometimes) (SQLS-R4). There was moderate correlation between SF 36-energy
with SQOLS - motivation and energy; SF 36-mental health correlation with
SQOLS-psychosocial.
CONCLUSION: SQLS-R4 appears to offer excellent potential as an easily
administered and patient acceptable assessment and monitoring measure of
quality of life (QoL). However, a principle psychometric criterion crucial
to the use and validity of the instrument concerns the underlying factor
structure.
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Citation: Isjanovski V, Naumovska A, Bonevski D,
Novotni A. Validation of the Schizophrenia Quality of Life Scale Revision 4
(SQLS-R4) Among Patients with Schizophrenia. OA Maced J Med Sci. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2016.015
Key words: schizophrenia; patients; reliabity; validity; the Quality
of Life Scale.
*Correspondence: Viktor Isjanovski, MD, PhD. Psychiatric Hospital
“Skopje”, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. E-mail: viktorisjanovski@yahoo.com
Received: 10-Dec-2015; Revised: 27-Dec-2015; Accepted: 29-Dec-2015; Online
first: 11-Jan-2016
Copyright: © 2016 Viktor Isjanovski, Andromahi Naumovska, Dimitar
Bonevski, Antoni Novotni.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution,
and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are
credited.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing
interests exist.
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