Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Maryla Sawicka.
In the article the problems of prevalence of schizophrenic disorders and comorbidity with psychoactive substances such as drugs and alcohol were presented. This review summarizes the recent literature concerning: personality, schizophrenia and coming to decision to use psychoactive substances such as drugs and alcohol.
AIM: The purpose of the study was to compare the level of the coping styles among patients suffering from schizophrenia to schizophrenic patients who use drug and alcohol and alcohol and drug dependent patients. The second question referred to the possibilities of changes in the patients with a dual diagnosis style of handling difficult situations after they have participated in the social skills training. METHOD: 30 schizophrenic patients in the group I, 30 schizophrenic patients who use drug and alcohol--group II, and group III--alcohol and drug dependent subjects. Each of the subjects was evaluated twice: at the beginning of the Social Skills Training and 32 weeks after. The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations by Endler and Parker, in the Polish adaptation by Szczepaniak, Strelau and Wrześniewski was used to measure coping styles. A sociodemographic questionnaire by Sawicka, Positive and Negative Schizophrenia Symptoms (PANSS) by Kay, Fiszbein and Opler, as well as the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test by Seltz ML were applied. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Persons with a dual diagnosis relatively often use task-orientated and emotional style of coping with stressful situations, similarly to dependent persons. Results of the study do not definitely indicate that participation in the cycle of social skills training influences the changes in preferable stress coping styles. However, it is an indisputable fact the percentage of persons with a dual diagnosis who use alcohol and psychoactive substances decreased to 36.7% after they have completed the cycle of trainings.