Efficacy and clinical application of daily Naikan therapy in hospitalized schizophrenic patients

Abstract

Objective To explore Naikan therapy of the processes and efficacy in the treatment of schizophrenic patients.Methods 120 schizophrenic patients were randomly divided into study group (n =60)and control group (n =60),and were treated with olanzapine combined with Naikan therapy and and olanzapine respectively for 4 weeks.Efficacy at baseline,end 4th week after the treatment were assessed respectively by Life Satisfaction Rating Soale (LSR),Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS),Clinical Global lmpression-severty of illness (CGI-SI).Results A total of 102 patients completed 4 weeks of treatment,48 cases of the combined group and 54 cases of the control group.At the baseline,there were no significant difference in LSR,SSRS,CGI score between control group and olanzapine combined with Naikan therapy treatment group(P＞0.05).At the end 4th week of treatment,LSR increased score and SSRS increased score of study group were significantly higher than control group[ (2.46 ±0.43)vs(0.24 ±0.17),(4.73 ± 1.27) vs(0.65 ±0.28),t =3.45,3.02;respectively;P ＜0.01 ].At the end of treatment,there were no significant difference in CGI-SI score between control group and study group (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions The Naikan therapy combined with antipsychotics may have better improvement of the life satisfaction of schizophrenic patients,increasing the patient' s social support for hospitalized patients to carry out. Key words: Schizophrenia; Naikan therapy; Inpatients