Espiritualidad y calidad de vida en personas con esquizofrenia en Cuenca

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects the proper functioning of those who experience it. The disease leads to the development of spiritual coping strategies to reduce the discomfort caused by such a circumstance and improve the quality of life. This research was quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive and cross-sectional. The main objective was to describe the frequency of use of spiritual coping strategies and the perception of the level of quality of life in people with schizophrenia at the Psychiatric Hospital Humberto Ugalde Camacho. The participants were 30 people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. It used a sociodemographic questionnaire, the spiritual coping strategies scale, and the revised MCGILL quality of life questionnaire for data collection. The data processing was carried out through SPSS, for the analysis were used descriptive statistics and the results were presented through tables and figures. It found a medium frequency in the use of spiritual coping strategies, those of a religious type were used mostly by women and non-religious ones, by those who had a sentimental partner. The level of perceived quality of life was high, who had a sentimental partner scored more in the physical, psychological, existential subscale and in the total quality of life. The medium and high level of quality of life was more frequent in people with a tendency to use spiritual coping strategies