Study the effect of education during discharge on quality of life in patients with schizophrenia

Abstract

Introdution: Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder, which may be accompanied by reduction in quality of life.The purpose of this study was to study the effect of education during discharge on the quality of life in the patients with schizophrenia.

Methods: The present study was an experimental study and research community is of the patients at the Comprehensive Psychiatric Center of Yazd Province, Iran. In this study, the patients (two experimental and control groups, n= 32 in each group) with schizophrenia were admitted to the Comprehensive Psychiatric Center of Yazd Province. For the experimental group, in addition to routine programs, the discharge program was performed for 6 hours in the hospital and a routine program was performed for the control group. Quality of life was measured with the quality of life inventory in both groups before the intervention and one month after discharge. Statistical analysis was performed by paired T test and independed T test(version 16)

Results: The groups were matched for demographic variables and quality of life score. At the end of the study, the quality of life and social skills (P <0.001) were significantly improved in the experimental group, but there was no significant change in the control group (P>0.05).

Conclusion: Increasing the quality of life is the benefits of training during discharge, which is important due to the chronic course of schizophrenia