Schizophrenia and Homelessness: Assess the ability to design a cost effectiveness analysis for an evidence-based practice project

Schizophrenia and Homelessness
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Schizophrenia and Homelessness
When one is diagnosed with schizophrenia, there are faced with a limitless number of changes that immediately come to their lives. All the goals, dreams, hopes and their future plans are put on hold or their scrapped altogether. Patients have to constantly battle with hallucinations and delusions (Porter, 2015). Some patients will hear voices which convince them that the people that are trying to help them are actually plotting against them. However, one of the most crucial aspect about the schizophrenia patients relates to being homeless. Being homeless increases the level of complexity of the diseases in myriad ways (Caton, Shrout, Eagle, Opler, Felix & Dominguez, 1994). In a typical situation, this is a disease that tends to breakout during adolescence or in the early adulthood; that is 18 to 31 years of age. At this age most of the people are either continuing with their studies or laying out the ground work for their careers and family. When the disease strikes, it is impossible for the patient to accomplish their live dreams, plans and goals (Price, 2009).
The disease is not just devastating to the person that is suffering from it, however there is also the family members and all the other people that the patient was interacting with before the first psychotic break. As such, from the point of the first break, the patient's life starts taking on a turn for the worst. They fall out with their family members, spouses, children and workmates (Treatmentadvocacycenter.org, 2016). Even when the symptoms are initially treated effectively, the patient is still going to experience difficulties communicating with others. The most common turn out is that they finally become homeless, relative to the fact that they no longer have the social skills and professional skills. Other than they tend to isolate themselves, they also make it difficult for the family and loved ones to support them. It is also hard for the family members and those that are supporting them to keep track of them at all times (Mentalhealth.com, 1995).
As such most of the patients end being homeless without much support that they need to get ahead of the disease. When the patients are treated, in most of the cases, other than the fact that they do not have the social support that they need, they also do not have the medication adherence that they should have (Treatmentadvocacycenter.o...