Journal article
Quality of life in Chinese patients with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis
Li Lu, Liang-Nan Zeng, Qian-Qian Zong, Wen-Wang Rao, Chee H Ng, Gabor S Ungvari, Jun Li, Feng-Rong An, Yu-Tao Xiang
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH | ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
The impact of schizophrenia on quality of life (QOL) is significantly influenced by sociocultural factors. This meta-analysis systematically compared QOL between patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls in China. PubMed, PsycINFO, Embase, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), SinoMed and WanFang databases were searched to identify case-control studies. Standardized mean differences (SMDs) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated using random effect models. Eighteen case-control studies comparing QOL between schizophrenia patients (n = 2,425) and healthy controls (n = 2,072) were included in the analyses. Compared with healthy controls, schizophrenia patients had s..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The study was supported by the University of Macau (MYRG2015-00230-FHS; MYRG2016-00005-FHS). The University of Macau had no role in the study design, generating or interpreting the results and publication of the study.