To investigate the components of general health in schizophrenia, the author applied the Korean version of Goldberg and Hillier´s General Health Questionnaire on the 57 schizophrenic patients, and tried factor analysis using SPSS/PC+based on the scores of each items.
The result of factor analysis were summarised as following 6 factors:
Factor 1 was somatic symptoms and depression factor, factor 2 was indecisiveness factor, factor 3 was role dysfunction factor, factor 4 was insomnia factor, factor 5 was neurasthenia and escape factor, and factor 6 was nervousness and inefficiency factor.
This results were thought to be as the concentration of genreal health in schizophrenia.
|