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Abstract
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality, and relates to others. Though schizophrenia isn’t as common as other major mental illnesses, it can be the most chronic and disabling.
People with schizophrenia often have problems doing well in society, at work, at school, and in relationships. They might feel frightened and withdrawn, and could appear to have lost touch with reality. This lifelong disease can’t be cured but can be controlled with proper treatment.
Contrary to popular belief, schizophrenia is not a split or multiple personality. Schizophrenia involves a psychosis, a type of mental illness in which a person can’t tell what’s real from what’s imagined. At times, people with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality. The world may seem like a jumble of confusing thoughts, images, and sounds. Their behavior may be very strange and even shocking. A sudden change in personality and behavior, which happens when people who have it lose touch with reality, is called a psychotic episode.
This work aimed to study the nutritional and physiological status of schizophrenic patients and assess their nutritional status by: assessing the nutritional status, studying the relationship between the social and economic level with schizophrenia, studying the anthropometrics of patients under treatment. Evaluating the health status and the external appearance of schizophrenic patients. Study and improve the nutritional status of the sample patients.
This study was conducted on 100 cases of patients with schizophrenia. This study was conducted at the psychological hospital in Benha governments.
The instrument of this study consists of a structured interview questionnaire. This consists of four parts: the first is the elicitation of sociobiological characteristics of the studied cases, the second is the collection of data on the diet and health history of the studied cases, the third is anthropometric measurements and laboratory tests and the fourth is a 24-hour retrieval of food intake over the course of today.
The obtained results showed the following:
In case of marital status the most schizophrenic patients were unmarried, the lowest were widow.
In case of material income most of schizophrenic patients earn less than 1000.
In case clinical status 50% had outward appearance injuries, 30% had body scratches, 20% had congenital disabilities and all patient with schizophrenia under the study can move.
In case of health status:
20% of schizophrenic patients had Difficulty swallowing.
All cases ender the study missed part of their tooth.
Most of schizophrenic patients had good appetite (50%), the lowest had a weak appetite (10%).
All schizophrenic patients in the study suffered from different chronic diseases such as myopia, diabetes and liver problems, but the most cases suffered from obesity.
In case of physiological status (general appearance ):
Most of schizophrenic patients (50%) in the study had a very dirty clothe appearance, only 20% of them there cloth appearance weren’t dirty.
Most schizophrenic patients (60%) in the study had good physical health, only 10% of them had bad physical health.
For height and body of schizophrenic patients in the study 30% were short, 35% were long and 35% were medium.
For body position the most schizophrenic patients in the study were natural, the lowest percentage had arched back.
30% of schizophrenic patients in the study there face features were responsive, 30% were angry, 20% taut and 20% were tense.
Most of schizophrenic patients (40%) in the study had a natural eye contact, the rest there eye contact was strange between sneak peek, Avoid and Staring.
For motor behaviour the most cases of schizophrenic patients in the study had fast moving, but the lowest cases had slow moving.
For mental capacity the most cases of schizophrenic patients in the study were unconscious, but the lowest cases were conscious.
With regard to attention 30% were natural, 40% were scattered and 30% were worry of schizophrenic patients in the study.
In case of nutritional status of schizophrenia patients:
The thing that male and female care about most is carbohydrates, and the least thing they care about is animal fats.