Impact of Spirituality and Religious Practices on Executive Function in Paranoid and Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
*Rupesh Ranjan et al
Objective: Spirituality and religiousness have been shown to be highly prevalent among patients with schizophrenia .However, clinicians are rarely aware of the importance of spirituality and religiousness. Executive function refers to host neuro cognitive activities that are associated the prefrontal cortex such as planning, problem solving, shifting, cognitive set and alteration between two or more tasks (Green 1998). This study examined the spirituality and religious practices and executive function in paranoid and undifferentiated schizophrenia.
Method : The sample included 75 right handed male subjects .who were divided in three groups- normal control, paranoid and undifferentiated schizophrenia. After initial screening using GHQ-12 for normal control and BPRS for schizophrenia were selected. Self made semi structure interview about spirituality religious practices conducted on among schizophrenia group. After that WCST were administered to all of them, according to standard procedure.
Results: The findings were as follows: all groups were well matched except for marital status & occupation. Paranoid schizophrenia shows more spirituality and religious practice compare to undifferentiated schizophrenia. The performance of normal control on WCST better than schizophrenia and within schizophrenia paranoid had less deficits in executive function compare to undifferentiated schizophrenia.
Conclusion: Thus, it can be concluded that executive functioning of schizophrenics, are impaired in comparison to normal subjects. Within the schizophrenics subgroups the greatest impairment exists in undifferentiated schizophrenics patients and spirituality and religious practice is an important issue for patient with schizophrenia and importance in executive function.
Key words: Spirituality, Executive Function, Schizophrenia, WCST
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