Abstract:
The purpose of this research were to study the memory of chronic schizophrenic patients and relationship among selected factors including age, gender , duration of illness, using drug substance, positive symptom, negative symptom, activity daily living, stress, and memory of chronic schizophrenic patients. The subjects were 154 persons with chronic schizophrenia at Psychiatric hospital. They were selected by simple random sampling technique. Data was collected by using the Demographic Data Form. Mini-mental State Examination, Stress questionnaire, Positive symptom Scale, Negative symptom Scale, Barthel Index of Activity of daily living. Statistical technique used in data analysis were Frequency, Percent, Mean, Standard deviation, Pearsons product Moment correlation. Major findings were as follows ; 1. The level of memory of chronic schizophrenic patients were moderate (Mean=20.62, S.D.=4.08) 2. Duration of illness, stress, Positive symptom, negative symptom were negatively correlated to memory of chronic schizophrenic patients at level .05 (r = - .54, -.34, - .50 and -.45 respectively) 3. Age, gender, activity of daily living, using drug substance were not significantly related to memory of chronic schizophrenic patients