E-ISSN : 2733-4538
Happy-QoL Scale was developed to assess the quality of life in patients with schizophrenic disorder and composed 5 factors(economic domain, general domain, physical domain, occupational/social domain, and affective domain). This study was intended to confirm that the factor model of the Happy-QoL scale developed by explanatory factor analysis could be fitted to the newly collected data from the subjects and to examine the responses to the QoL scale had a time stability over the different time intervals. The principally proposed model was consisted of five factors which were correlated each other. The alternative models suggested were as follows: the model supposed no correlation among 5 factors; the model supposed correlation between factor 1(economic domain) and factor 4(occupational/social domain), and between factor 2(general domain) and factor 3(physical domain). The subjects were composed of 270 patients with schizophrenic disorder. The results of χ2 difference test showed that the model supposing five factors were correlated each other was best fitted. The responses to the Happy-QoL scale had the time stability on each periods of week 1, week 2, and week 4. Finally, the suggestions of this study were briefly described.