A Study on the Occupational Therapy Intervention for Executive Function Training for Patient With Schizophrenia: Systematic Review

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness and methodology of occupational therapy intervention for the executive functionality of patients with schizophrenia.Methods: From January 2007 to December 2018, we searched for data based on schizophrenia, occupational therapy, and executive function among the articles listed in ScienceDirect, Pubmed, and CINAHL. From these articles, ten studies using occupational therapy intervention were selected and analyzed.Results: In the 10 selected studies, the types of occupational therapy interventions included a task analysis, occupational goal intervention, occupational therapy training intervention related to activity, virtual reality environment, and shopping training intervention applied in an actual store environment, along with cognitive training and vocational training program interventions.Conclusion: Through this study, we confirmed the types, effects, dependent variables, and evaluation tools of occupational therapy intervention for the executive function training of patients with schizophrenia. These results can be used as evidence for selecting an intervention method according to its purpose when the occupational therapist provides an intervention to patients with schizophrenia.