Time Use of People Living with Schizophrenia in a North London Catchment Area
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Time use provides one means to study the lifestyles and community participation of people with disabilities. Previous clinical studies suggest that people with a mental illness experience difficulty in using their time meaningfully. This study examines the time use of 229 adults diagnosed with schizophrenia from an epidemiological survey in London, England. Twenty-four hour time budgets were collected and time use was calculated for 10 major categories of occupations. Few of the participants were engaged in work, active leisure, education or volunteer occupations, their predominant occupations being sleeping, personal care and passive leisure. The women spent significantly more time in domestic occupations and less time in passive leisure occupations than the men. The younger participants spent significantly more time in social occupations than the other age-groups. The older participants, and those attending day centres, spent most time in passive leisure. These findings indicate that many people diagnosed with schizophrenia are not engaged in occupations that support active lifestyles or social inclusion, highlighting the need to improve their opportunities to participate in mainstream social, active and productive occupations. Occupational therapists must work with service users and agencies beyond the mental health system to enable service users' participation in such occupations. Barriers to participation also require further exploration to address these occupational needs better.
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Younger people with psychiatric disabilities spent more time socializing than older persons.
“For example, Shimitras et al. (17) showed that younger people with PD spent more time socializing than older persons.”
From Factors influencing subjective perceptions of everyday occupations: Comparing day centre attendees with non-attendees (2012) · cites this paper as [17]
People with psychiatric disabilities spend more time sleeping and resting than people who are mentally well.
“Activity level has been addressed in time use studies, showing mainly that people with PD spend more time sleeping and resting than people who are mentally well (17).”
From Factors influencing subjective perceptions of everyday occupations: Comparing day centre attendees with non-attendees (2012) · cites this paper as [17]
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- Authors
- Shimitras, L., Fossey, E., & Harvey, C.
- Affiliations
- Sunshine Hospital (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Venue
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-02
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 46-54
- ISSN
- 0308-0226 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-6006
- OpenAlex
- W1999611247
- Cited by
- 87
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 21.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Keywords
- schizophrenia, time use, occupational participation, social inclusion, gender differences, age differences, day centers, leisure, community participation, mental illness, occupational therapy
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