Clinical evidence supported by research conducted the last fifteen years provides alarming evidence for the poor general health of women and men with severe mental illness (see for example Allebeck (1989), Baxter (1996) and Dixon et al (1999) Osborne (2006). Schizophrenia, the most common diagnosis leading to long-term professional treatment and support, is known to be associated with the most common chronic physical illnesses and shown to have a shorter life expectancy compared with life expectancy in the general population (Marder et al 2002).
The main goal of health-care research is to acquire, develop and validate knowledge of phenomena relating to health and illness. Issues pertaining to health and illness are seen as inherently complex, and research therefore focuses on exploring, understanding and explaining their complexity. In this proposed study health and quality of life are seen as interrelated components of a person’s whole existence. Although health can objectively be “measured” or observed, health and quality of life are subjectively experienced and defined by each person.
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