Abstract
Effect of Social Skills Enhancement Training Program on Negative Symptoms among Patients with Schizophrenia
Highlights
Schizophrenia is considered as one of the top ten common chronic devastating diseases worldwide [1]
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia were associated with impairments in social and cognitive functioning leading to substantial long-term disability (Gopal et al (2020) [37].early presence of negative symptoms is associated with a worse course, and maximal impairments in adaptive life skills, (Corcoran et al, 2011) [38] and treatment of these negative symptoms of schizophrenia represents a major issue in determining the functional and social prognosis of the disease (Maurel et al, 2015) [39] Advances in the management of negative symptoms and social impairment in schizophrenia forced understanding that treatment by currently on the market antipsychotics alone will not restore the patient to proper social functioning and manage these relatively resistant and challenging symptoms (Lodovighi et al, 2016) [40]
The resultant improvement in negative symptoms in the present study is in accordance with Ventura et al (2019) study, which indicated that any nonpharmacological interventions that could bring unexpected benefits for schizophrenia and can improve its negative symptoms, even at moderate levels, would go a long way toward improving the patient outcomes [46]
Summary
Schizophrenia is considered as one of the top ten common chronic devastating diseases worldwide [1]. The significance of this study comes from that negative symptoms of schizophrenia are commonly associated with reductions in the necessary skills required by patients for satisfaction of their daily living activities They may have difficulty starting a conversation, speak in a low monotonous voice, or fail to establish eye contact so helping those patients can enhance their community adjustment so the role of the psychiatric nurses is to focus on enhancing patients' social skills as they are in an excellent position to assess and implement the appropriate interventions because they have a great contact with patients and have knowledge and concern about them. Subjects A convenient sample of 60 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia according to DSM-5 diagnosis They were divided into two groups (30 patients in each group).The first group was the study group which was involved into the social skills enhancement training program and the second group was the control group which received the treatment as usual care.
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