Environmental color preference and influencing factors of inpatients with schizophrenia / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the preference and influencing factors of environment color of in-patients with schizophrenia. Methods A total of 1 320 schizophrenic inpatients were enrolled in the study. The self-made general questionnaire,the Eysenck personality questionnaire,the positive and negative symp-tom scale were used in this survey and the color preference was compared with the normal control group. Re-sults (1)The preference degree was significantly different in green(Z＝－2.587,P＝0.010),blue(Z＝－2.708,P＝0.007),white(Z＝－2.733,P＝0.006) and grey(Z＝－7.409,P＜0.01) between the two groups, and the sequence of color preference was consistent(r＝0.750,U＝2.710,P＜0.01).(2) Gender,age,place of residence,physical disease,starting age,disease subtype,positive symptoms,negative symptoms,hospitaliza-tion time,hospitalization frequency,psychoticism and neuroticism,internal and external factors were signifi-cantly related to color preferences(r＝0.010-0.216 or r＝－0.122-－0.054,P＜0.05),which would be the influ-ence factors to color preferences(β＝0.104-0.055 or β＝－0.091- －0.056,P＜0.05). Conclusion The most significant color preferences for patients with schizophrenia are red and black, which may be related to their cognitive function and personality characteristics.