[Subjective quality of life in patients with chronic schizophrenia and in healthy persons].

The goal of this work was comparison of quality of life in chronic schizophrenic patients with that in healthy persons. As we had expected, the level of QoL in healthy persons was significantly higher than QoL in the examined patients. It also turned out that the level of everyday functioning in the group of healthy persons had certain impact on their subjective QoL. In the group of schizophrenic patients such relation was not detected. The patients' QoL was not influenced by their general level of functioning (measured on the GAS scale) or intensity of psychopathological symptoms either. The healthy persons examined by us expressed satisfaction with their emotional life, sense of freedom and responsibility, life in general and family relations significantly more often than the persons with schizophrenia. The patients admitted also that in everyday life they found it most difficult to exact their rights, make decisions, organize their daily schedule and ask for help.