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ReviewFrontiers in public health2018

Holistic Management of Schizophrenia Symptoms Using Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological Treatment.

Pronab Ganguly, Abdrabo Soliman, Ahmed A Moustafa

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. A hybrid model for predicting response to risperidone after first-episode psychosis.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2025
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  6. NMDA receptor modulation by Esculetin: Investigating behavioral, biochemical and neurochemical effects in schizophrenic mice model.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2024
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  9. Neural Substrates of the Drift-Diffusion Model in Brain Disorders.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Pronab GangulySchool of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Abdrabo SolimanDepartment of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Ahmed A MoustafaSchool of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Individuals with schizophrenia lead a poor quality of life, due to poor medical attention, homelessness, unemployment, financial constraints, lack of education, and poor social skills. Thus, a review of factors associated with the holistic management of schizophrenia is of paramount importance. The objective of this review is to improve the quality of life of individuals with schizophrenia, by addressing the factors related to the needs of the patients and present them in a unified manner. Although medications play a role, other factors that lead to a successful holistic management of schizophrenia include addressing the following: financial management, independent community living, independent living skill, relationship, friendship, entertainment, regular exercise for weight gained due to medication administration, co-morbid health issues, and day-care programmes for independent living. This review discusses the relationship between different symptoms and problems individuals with schizophrenia face (e.g., homelessness and unemployment), and how these can be managed using pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods. Thus, the target of this review is the carers of individuals with schizophrenia, public health managers, counselors, case workers, psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists aiming to enhance the quality of life of individuals with schizophrenia.

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antipsychoticsholistic managementindividualized treatmentquality of lifeschizophrenia

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PMID29930935
PMCPMC5999799

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