Investigation of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, personality beliefs, and social functioning of patients with schizophrenia in remission

This study examined whether obsessive-compulsive symptoms, personality beliefs, and social functioning of patients with schizophrenia in remission differ according to demographic and clinical variables. For this purpose, 97 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia were interviewed, and 86 individuals in remission according to Andreasen criteria were included in the study. Data were collected using the Sociodemographic Information Form, Padua Inventory – Short Form (PI-SF), Personality Belief Questionnaire – Short Form (PBQ-SF), and Social Functioning Assessment Scale (SFAS). The data were analyzed using correlation analysis, the Mann-Whitney U Test, and the Kruskal-Wallis Test. According to the analysis results, there was a weak, negative, linear relationship between age and both the total score of PI-SF and the rumination subscale score, and between the age of onset and avoidant personality beliefs score; SFAS independent living and occupational life scores differed by gender; those with a history of suicide had higher scores in most types of personality beliefs and higher total obsessive-compulsive symptom scores along with all sub-dimensions; rumination subscale and occupational life scores differed by the number of hospitalizations; antisocial personality beliefs differed by graduation status; and all sub-dimensions and total scores of SFAS differed by employment status. The results were evaluated along with the limitations of the study.