Quality of Life and Associated Factors among Patients with Schizophrenia Attending Follow-Up Treatment at Jimma Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Bivariate linear regression analysis of associated factors of quality of life of patients with schizophrenia attending follow-up clinic, JUMC, Southwest Ethiopia, June-July 2018.

Variable			95% CI	value
Age of participants	0.001	0.002	-0.208-0.211	0.987
Female participants	0.009	3.225	-0.357-6.807	0.077
Participant’s marital status
Married	0.003	Reference value
Single	0.006	-2.625	-6.124-0.873	0.141
Divorced	0.000	0.361	-5.593-6.316	0.905
Widowed	0.004	6.563	-4.570-17.697	0.247
Participant’s educational status
College or above	0.001	Reference value
No education	0.002	-1.688	-5.430-2.055	0.376
Primary education	0.005	2.388	-1.303-6.079	0.204
Secondary education	0.000	0.451	-3.571-4.474	0.826
Participant’s occupational status	0.000	Reference value
Government	0.002	-1.741	-5.638-2.157	0.380
Private	0.000	0.071	-5.485-5.627	0.980
Unemployed	0.000	0.761	-4.217-5.740	0.764
Monthly income	0.150	15.998	11.995-20.000	<0.001
Duration of illness	0.004	-2.850	-7.718-2.018	0.250
Duration of treatment	0.003	-0.193	-0.539-0.154	0.275
Positive symptom	0.572	-1.289	-1.407-(-1.172)	<0.001
Negative symptom	0.628	-1.317	-1.424-(-1.210)	<0.001
General psychopathology	0.620	-0.688	-0.744-(-0.631)	<0.001
Medication nonadherence	0.427	-21.061	-23.627-(-18.494)	<0.001
No history of admission	0.040	6.385	3.087-9.682	<0.001
Comorbid physical illness	0.080	-19.338	-26.225-(-12.451)	<0.001
Ever use of tobacco	0.321	-18.069	-20.838-(-15.299)	<0.001
Ever use of khat	0.122	-12.111	-15.537-(-8.684)	<0.001
Ever use of alcohol	0.003	1.829	-1.889-5.547	0.334

Reference group; other: housewife and student.