Schizophrenia is a severe chronic mental disorder that affects about 1% of the global population.
Aim of study: assess the relation between alexithymia, psychological resilience and suicidal ideation
among patients with schizophrenia. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized
to achieve the aim of the study. Setting: This study was conducted at psychiatric health hospital and
addiction treatment at benha city, Qalubia Governorate. Study subject: Convenient sample of 100
patients with schizophrenia. Tools of Data collection: four tools were used: Tool 1: Structured
Interview Questionnaire, Tool 2: The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), Tool 3: The ConnorDavidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and Tool 4: Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSS). Results;
less than two thirds of the patients with schizophrenia tend to report high level of alexithymia and
around three quarters of them had low level of psychological resilience. Also, half of the studied
patients had low risk of suicidal ideation Conclusion: there was a strong statistically significant
positive correlation between total suicidal ideation and alexithymia among the studied patients with
schizophrenia. While, there was a strong statistically significant negative correlation between total
alexithymia and psychological resilience, also between total suicidal ideation and psychological
resilience among the studied patients with schizophrenia. Recommendations: Psycho- educational
nursing programs should be conducted to improve psychological resilience, decrease alexithymia
and suicidal ideation among patient with schizophrenia |
