Health-Related Quality of Life and Overall Life Satisfaction in People with Serious Mental Illness

Table 3

Summary of bivariate correlations among quality of life indicators and psychiatric symptoms, cognition, functional capacity, and medical comorbidity.

	PHC	MHC	Life satisfaction
PHC		−0.087	0.159
MHC			0.621**
BPRS-E (total score)	−0.079	−0.370*	−0.306*
Positive symptoms	0.070	−0.016	−0.058
Negative symptoms	−0.038	−0.607**	−0.379**
HAM-D	0.071	−0.662**	−0.427**
Cognitive composite	0.014	0.094	−0.281^+
UPSA-B	0.044	−0.024	−0.243^+
Medical comorbidity	−0.518**	−0.262^+	−0.339*

Note: PHC: physical health component of the SF-36, MHC: mental health component of the SF-36, BPRS-E: brief psychiatric rating scale (expanded), HAM-D: Hamilton depression rating scale, and UPSA-B: University of California San Diego performance-based skills assessment (brief). *𝑃 is significant at the 0.05 level (two tailed), **𝑃 is significant at the 0.01 level (two tailed), and ⁺𝑃 < 0.10.