Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 14, 2026

Development of a Virtual Reality Assessment of Everyday Living Skills
Published on: April 23, 2014
Schizophrenia: management and family burden
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, P O Box A178. Avondale, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Objective:
To explore schizophrenia with respect to its management, causes, risk factors as well as the impact it has in families regarding the burden and social networks support.
Methods:
Desk literature reviews.
Results:
The findings are that patients with schizophrenia typically have great difficulty following a medication regimen, but they also have the greatest potential for benefiting from adherence. As with other chronic diseases that lack a definitive cure, the individual's service/recovery plan must include treatment interventions directed towards decreasing manifestations of the illness, rehabilitative services, enhancing adaptive skills, and social support mobilization aimed at optimizing function and quality of life.
Conclusion:
Finally, this paper is not exhaustive, but a pointer for further readings.
Related Concept Videos
Psychological and Sociocultural Causes of Schizophrenia
Psychosis: Goals of Pharmacotherapy
Schizophrenia
Drug Therapy
Antianxiety Medications
Psychosis and Antipsychotic Drugs: Overview
Personality Disorders: Paranoid and Schizoid
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Paranoid personality disorder is...
