Effect of brief psycho social intervention on coping mechanism and quality of life among spouse of individual with chronic schizophrenia

Abstract

Background: Schizophrenia is one of the severe mental illnesse, which is characterized by highly disruptive psychopathology affecting perception, emotion, behavior, and cognition. It poses serious difficulties for both the distressed individual and their spouse. Psychosocial intervention was used to improve the spouse’s coping strategies and quality of life. Aim: To study the effectiveness of psychosocial intervention on coping strategies and quality of life of spouses of the individual with schizophrenia. Methods and material: Hospital based experimental research design was used in the study. The sample consisted of 70 spouses of individual with schizophrenia (35 experimental, 35 control) selected from Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune by using purposive sampling technique. Socio demographic details of all spouses of individual with chronic schizophrenia assessed by using brief cope scale and WHO Quality of Life Scale- Brief. Results: Findings shows that mean age of the participants were 35.5 years.  After receiving of psychosocial intervention participants of the experimental group showed highly significant improvement at (P<.001) level in each domain of brief cope scale and quality of life in comparison to control group. Conclusion: The findings of the study highlights the significant improvement in the coping strategies and quality of life. The intervention helped the spouses improve their coping strategies which gives positive changes in the quality of life.