Social Psychiatry, Vol. 48 No. 3, 2020.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.24869/spsih.2020.257
Encouraging Resilience and Thus Also Quality of Life in Trauma and Stressor-induced Disorders Through Crisis Interventions
Silvija Topić Lukačević
orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-1624
; Sveti Ivan Psychiatric Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Slobodanka Cvitanušić
; Sveti Ivan Psychiatric Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Filipčić
; Sveti Ivan Psychiatric Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Mia Kosović
; Sveti Ivan Psychiatric Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The accelerated rhythm of the modern lifestyle has resulted in growing levels of stress, which can lead to exhaustion and a breakdown of a person’s capacity for adjustment, sometimes even causing lasting effects and psychological trauma. Newer studies have increasingly focused on improving patient quality of life through various interventions that improve resilience. Crisis interventions as well as psychotherapy and pharmacological treatment are used in our Day Hospital, which specializes in the implementation of preventative and treatment programs for trauma and stressor-induced disorders (TSRD) in order to encourage healthy psychological strength, i.e. resilience, enabling recovery and return to premorbid functioning and quality of life. The goal of this study was to show how the interventions we apply in the Day Hospital have influenced the patient quality of life and thus increased their resilience. We will present an evaluation of our work over a period of four years (from 2015 to 2019). Our sample comprises 129 patients. We applied the WHOQOL-BREF (World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version) questionnaire at the start and at the end of the patients’ hospital stay or program. The results show a statistically significant improvement in quality of life at the end of the program. We found improvements in all four quality of life domains, in descending order of magnitude: improvement in mental health, physical health, environment, and social relationships. Sex was the only sociodemographic factor that was significant – women reported more significant improvements in the social relationships domain, whereas the results were equal between the sexes in the other domains. Out study demonstrated that crisis interventions improve resilience and therefore also quality of life, as the two are unquestionably related.
Keywords
Resilience; Stress; Trauma; Crisis interventions; Quality of life
Hrčak ID:
249674
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Publication date:
11.1.2021.
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