QUALITY-OF-LIFE AND DAILY COPING OF CHRON IC-SCHIZOPHRENICS - A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATORY-STUDY

The results of this qualitative exploratory study show that chronic sc hizophrenics partly cope successfully with the multivarious demands of everyday life, including the consequences of their illness. They most ly realize a relatively high level of quality of life. There is a dist inct connection between the concrete institutional-therapeutic setting conditions and the multiplicity of participation in social life or th e available ways of coping. We identified favourable and unfavourable coping modes as well as starting points for therapeutic interventions. A qualitative analysis of the individual case seems to be absolutely required, in order to estimate their efficiency.