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Maintaining Social Relations Was a Great Challenge for Most Chinese Patients Self-management of chronic disease includes not only the tasks entailed in handling physical aspects of the illness, but also requires the ability to maintain various social roles (Clark, Janz, Dodge,& Sharpe, 1992). However, for most Chinese people with schizophrenia and their families, maintaining social relations is a great challenge for them. The current study revealed that only five patients had a part-time job. This finding is consistent with many studies that have revealed that 85% of persons with schizophrenia are unemployed (Marwaha & Johnson, 2004) despite the fact that most want to work, (Mueser, Salyers, & Mueser, 2001) and are capable of working in competitive jobs (Bond et al., 2001). In China, only 27.3% people with schizophrenia had full-time work or were able to work (Ran et al., 2011). Numerous studies have already indicated that work can enhance selfesteem, decrease social isolation, offer financial benefits, provide coping strategies for psychiatric symptoms and ultimately facilitate the process of recovery (Honey, 2004; Marwaha & Johnson, 2004; Salyers, Becker, Drake, Torrey, & Wyzik, 2004). Therefore, encouraging and helping people with schizophrenia in China in finding and maintaining a job is needed. It is clear that most participants in this study viewed stigma as the most common reason for unemployment. This result was supported by another Chinese study. According to Lee et al. (2005), more than a third of Chinese people with
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