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Abstract
Schizophrenia is a chronic and multidimensional disorder which affects patient’s
thoughts, behavior, perceptions and emotions. Sleep disturbances are wide spread among
patients with schizophrenia. They include difficulty in initiating and maintaining sleep, poor
sleep efficiency, reduced total sleep time, day time fatigue that affects day today tasks.
Poor sleep predicts poor QoL in patients with schizophrenia. Sleep among patients
with schizophrenia was identified as a way of coping but also as an escape from psychotic
symptoms. Subjects with poor sleep ar; more likely to use maladaptive coping mechanisms
than good sleepers.
The present study aimed to assess the quality ef sleep, coping strategies and quality
of life among patients with schizophrenia. In addition, it aims to identify the relationship
etween quality of sleep and both coping strategies and quality of life among these patients.
The study followed a descriptive correlational research design. It was conducted at
the psychiatric outpatient clinic of El Maamoura Hospital for Psychiatric Medicine in
Alexandria.
Study subjects comprised 170 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia (145 male and
~5 female patients)