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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Forensic Psychiatry
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1407588

Quality of life among people with mental illness attending a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Ethiopia: A structural equation model based on domains of quality of life, sociodemographic, clinical, social support and substance use factors

Provisionally accepted
Wondale Getinet Alemu Wondale Getinet Alemu 1*Lillian Mwanri Lillian Mwanri 2Clemence Due Clemence Due 3Telake Azale Telake Azale 4Anna Ziersch Anna Ziersch 5
  • 1 University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
  • 2 Torrens University Australia, Adelaide, Australia
  • 3 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
  • 4 Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
  • 5 Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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    Background: Mental illness is one of the most severe, chronic, and disabling public health problems that affects patients' Quality of life (QoL). Improving the QoL for people with mental illness is one of the most critical steps in stopping disease progression and avoiding complications of mental illness. Therefore, we aimed to assess the QoL and its determinants in patients with mental illness in outpatient clinics in Northwest Ethiopia in 2023. related factors, drug use factors, and clinical factors, directly and indirectly affected QoL through the mediator variables of physical health domains, psychological health domains, social relation health domains, and environmental health domains. In order to improve the QoL of people with mental illnesses, we recommend that emphasis be given to addressing the QoL of those with mental illness, including the development of policy and practice responses that address the above identified factors.

    Keywords: Quality of Life, Mental wellbeing, mental illness, mental disorder, Ethiopia

    Received: 26 Mar 2024; Accepted: 22 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Alemu, Mwanri, Due, Azale and Ziersch. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Wondale Getinet Alemu, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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