Abstract
The effectiveness of return to community program on increasing interpersonal skills and life quality of patients with schizophrenia
Highlights
Schizophrenia is a major mental disorder that causes disorders in the emotional, cognitive and social spheres, and leads to losing abilities in adapting to environmental changes and proper performance in community (Haller & Kumar Mahatou, 2015)
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of return to community program on increasing interpersonal skills and life quality of patients with schizophrenia
Question 1: Does education of return to community program have an impact on improving the interpersonal skills (IIP) of schizophrenic patients?
Summary
Schizophrenia is a major mental disorder that causes disorders in the emotional, cognitive and social spheres, and leads to losing abilities in adapting to environmental changes and proper performance in community (Haller & Kumar Mahatou, 2015). One of the important supporting approaches to improve the life quality of people with schizophrenia is to train skills to return to the community. Skills training and return to community program are the approaches that are designed to improve the social skills of people with schizophrenia Interventions of this approach are intended to face the patient to real life situations and daily problems. Considering the above-mentioned items, this paper attempts to respond this question that whether return to community training has an impact on increasing interpersonal skills and the life quality of patients with schizophrenia. This situation poses some limitations in one's life and can confront him with loneliness and social isolation (Van der Slot et al, 2010; Band, 2006; Translated by Mohagheghi Kamal, 2010)
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