The association between global functionality and religiosity among patients from developing and predominantly Catholic countries warrants attention. To compare religiosity and psychosocial functioning in Mexican schizophrenia patients with and without a history of religious delusions, seventy-four patients with paranoid schizophrenia were recruited. Patients with a history of religious delusions had more psychiatric hospitalizations and poorer psychosocial functioning compared with those without a history of religious delusions. No differences emerged between groups in the total scores of religiosity scales. A history of religious delusions rather than religiosity itself may have an influence on psychosocial functioning among Mexican patients with schizophrenia.
Delusions/ethnology , Religion and Psychology , Schizophrenia, Paranoid/ethnology , Adult , Catholicism , Delusions/epidemiology , Female , Humans , Male , Mexico/epidemiology , Schizophrenia, Paranoid/physiopathology , Severity of Illness Index