The influence of psychosocial skills training given for patients with schizophrenia on schizophrenic patients? functionel recovery levels

This research have been planned and done as a pre-test post-test with control group of quasi-experimental method so as to determine the influence of psychosocial skills training of patients with schizophrenia on schizophrenia patients? functional recovery levels. All the patients diagnosed as schizophrenia according to DSM-IV diagnostic criteria and having treatment in outpatient follow-up in Elazığ Mental Health Hospital clinics during the research constitute the research population. A total of 50 experimental and 50 control groups of 100 patients matching the research criteria constitute the sample of this research. The data of this research were collected between 20 September 2010 and 21 March 2011. Personal Information Form and Functional Remission of General Schizophrenia (FROGS) Scale were used to collect data.Yates-corrected chi-square analysis, percentile, the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and T tests for dependent and independent groups are used for data evaluation. Of all the total experiment and control group of the patients, male patients constitute sixty-eight per cent and female patients constitute thirty-two per cent of patients. Fifty-two percent of the patients in experiment group and sixty-two per cent of the patients in the control group are 36 years old and over. It is found that in the experiment group the average total score of the pre-test FROGS is 49.00 ± 10.91 and the average total score of the post-test FROGS is 58.02 ± 9.96 and this shows that the difference between the groups is significantly meaningful (p<0.001), in the control group the average total score of the pre-test FROGS is 50.30 ± 10.47 and the average total score of the post-test FROGS is 51.46 ± 10.00 and this shows that the difference between the groups is important (p<0.05). While the increase of post-test the score in control group is 1.39 points, this difference in the experiment group is 9.02 points. When post-test scores the different between the experimental and control groups is compared, it is pointed out that the percentage points increase in the experiment group is statistically significantly higher than the percentage points increase in the control group (p<0.001). As a conclusion, it is established that psychosocial skill training performed in our study is effective against increasing the schizophrenic patients? functional recovery level.Keywords: Functional recovery level, Psychosocial skill training, Schizophrenia