Patterns of Daily Time Use of Young Adults With or Without First-Episode Psychosis

Abstract

This study compared patterns of daily activities and satisfaction with time use of young adults with first-episode psychosis and healthy volunteers. Fifty young adults participated in retrospective structured interviews on time use. Young adults with first-episode psychosis spend more time in sleep, passive leisure, and personal care activities, and less in total productive activities and education. No difference appeared for leisure, paid work, and household work, or satisfaction with daily time use. Reasons underlying dissatisfaction with daily time use differed between the groups. Clinical and research implications are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• schizophrenia
• community functioning
• occupational balance
• emerging adulthood
• daily activities

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The first author is supported by doctoral grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#200710CGD-188144-146281) and Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (#13941). The Canadian Occupational Therapy Foundation also contributed to the study funding. The authors also thank all research participants for their time and involvement in the project.

Notes

Note. Significant differences appear in bold.

Note. na = not available; PPS = previously published studies.

*Weighted averages are based on different sample sizes because data was unavailable from some publications.