Annotated Bibliography on Schizophrenia Spectrum and Depressive Disorders

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Schizophrenia spectrum and other disorders
1. Panayiotopoulos, C., Pavlakis, A., & Apostolou, M. (2013). Family burden of schizophrenic
patients and the welfare system; the case of Cyprus. International journal of mental health
systems, 7(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-7-13
Summary- The paper by Panayiotopoulos et al., (2013) has examined the burden experienced by
the family members caring for the schizophrenic patients and also determined the factors
affecting the family burden. For the collection of the data, the Involvement Evaluation
questionnaire has been used. The participants were the caregivers residing in the urban or the
rural areas of the district of Nicosia.
The dependant factors used for the analysis were tension, supervision, Encouragement
and worry. The independent factors used were age, marital, status, gender, income, number of
people residing in the same house, degree of relationship between the relative and the caregiver,
age of the relative, and gender of the relative. The statistical significant data that was found was
that the male relatives with schizophrenia more supervision than the female patients.
Evaluation and analysis- The results obtained from this paper did not necessarily match with
the previous other papers related to this. Apart from the dimensions tension, supervision and
financial cost, the results related to the other dimensions were not related other dimensions did

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not have statistical significant data. Another limitation is the low sample size that can lead to low
response bias.
2. Harangozo, J., Reneses, B., Brohan, E., Sebes, J., Csukly, G., Lopez-Ibor, J. J., ... &
Thornicroft, G. (2014). Stigma and discrimination against people with schizophrenia related
to medical services. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 60(4), 359-366.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764013490263
Summary- The paper by Harangozo et al., (2014), aimed to investigate the stigma experienced
by the people suffering from Schizophrenia, while using the health care services. A cross
sectional study was performed with 777 participants using face -to face- interview with the
participants (62 % male and 38 % female). Health care issues, behavior of the health care staffs,
personal privacy, safety and security, pregnancy and child birth were analyzed. Discrimination
was measured by using the Discrimination and the Stigma scale (DISC). As per the results, 17 %
of the participants reported of discrimination and 38 % of the participants reported of disrespect
displayed by the mental health staffs.
Analysis and evaluation- One of the weakness of this study is that that participants did not
consist of any health care members whose opinions could be tallied with the statements given by
the people suffering from Schizophrenia. This can cause response bias owing to the
predetermined notions adopted by the patients with mental health illness. One of the
advantageous sides of this paper is that that the 36 item questionnaire consisted of a wide range
of domains that can give a clear picture of the stigmatization taking place in health care services.
Furthermore, the results obtained from this study tallied with some of the previous studies,
related to discrimination faced by the schizophrenia patients.