Psychological well-being and quality of life of mentally disordered offenders with schizophrenia undergoing an involuntary inpatient treatment
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Methods Three groups of subjects (a total sample of 130) participated in the controlled-designed study: offenders with schizophrenia receiving involuntary hospital-based psychiatric treatment, non-offenders with schizophrenia receiving hospital-based psychiatric treatment and healthy controls. The self-reported, questionnaire-based measures included Psychological Well-being Scales (Ryff, 1995), Shmukler's Scale of Quality of Life (1998) and scales of self-esteem. Objective data about social functioning was also collected. The clinical status of mentally ill was rated by psychiatrists using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale.
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