Prevalence of Relapse and Associated Factors in Patient with Schizophrenia at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Institution.

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dc.contributor.authorWeret, Zewdu Shewangizaw
dc.contributor.authorMukherjee, Roan
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-23T09:26:09Z
dc.date.available2016-03-23T09:26:09Z
dc.date.issued2014-11
dc.description.abstractMore than fifty one and half millionpeople globally and nationally suffer from schizophrenia. Relapse rates vary from 50% to 92% globally. Factors that associated with relapse are drug non adherence, substance abuse, co-morbid illness and stressful life events. Aims to assess prevalence and associated factors of schizophrenia relapse among patients at Amanuel Mental Specialized hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Institution based cross sectional study conducted at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital from April one to thirty 2011. Data were collected by using pretested semi structured questionnaire in form of interview technique to collect data from 422 patients. The collected data were exposed to statistical treatments.Among participants 43.3% of them had relapse of schizophrenia. Factors with associated to schizophrenia relapse were depression, 1.95 [AOR (95% C.I, 1.95(1.17, 3.25)], suicidal ideation [AOR (95% C.I, 9.12(4.59, 17.92)] and drug non-adherence have a significance association with relapse of schizophrenia [AOR (95% C.I, 2.80(1.58, 4.96)]. The prevalence of relapse of schizophrenia is a common and major problem in Ethiopia and factors that are associated with relapse are depression, drug non adherence and suicidal ideation. It is better to launch community based bio psychosocial approaches.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWeret Zewdu Shewangizaw, Mukherjee Roan. Prevalence of Relapse and Associated Factors in Patient with Schizophrenia at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Institution. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies. 2014 Nov; 2(1): 184-192.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/176316
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.source.urihttps://www.ijims.com/process/downloadPDF.php?id=392en_US
dc.subjectRelapseen_US
dc.subjectschizophreniaen_US
dc.subjectnon-adherenceen_US
dc.subjectsuicidal ideationen_US
dc.subjectdepressionen_US
dc.titlePrevalence of Relapse and Associated Factors in Patient with Schizophrenia at Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Institution.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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