Ability Of Schizophrenic Patients Research Articles

Relationship of Family Support with Self-Treatment Ability of Schhizoprenia Patients at Tamiang Layang Health Center

Introduction:
 Mental disorder are syndromes or behavioral patterns that are clinically significant and associated with distress or suffering and cause disturbances in one or more functions of human life. The role of the family is very important in the healing process schizophrenic between family support and self-care ability of schizophrenic patients at the Tamiyang Layang Health Center.
 Method:
 This research is quantitative with a cross sectional approach. The population of this study amounted to 54 schizophrenia patients in 2020 with a total sampling technique and the sample of this study amounted to 54 people. The collection tool is in the form of a questionnaire.
 Results:
 Data analysis using univariate analysis and bivariat analysis with spearman rank test. Family support is included in the category of optimal family support as much as 77,8%. The patient’s self-care ability is included in the category of self care ability of a patient, information from the family shows that patients need partial assistance 81,5%.
 Conclusions:
 There is a relationship between family support and self care ability of schizophrenic patients at the tamiyang layang health center which is included in the strong category with a P value = 0,000 <0,05 and the correlation is positive because the strength value is 0,777.

Research of re-intergrating into community in schizophrenia patients in Ninh Kieu district, Can Tho city in 2021-2022

Background: This study helps to study the possibility of community reintegration of schizophrenic patients in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho city in 2021-2022 to draw conclusions and recommendations. Objective: To determine the good community reintegration rate to the community reintegration ability in schizophrenic patients in Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho city from 2021-2022.
 Materials and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 177 schizophrenia patients are being managed in the National Target Program for Community Mental Health Protection in Ninh Kieu District in the period of 2021-2022. Results: 88 patients (49.72%) reintegrated into the community well. There was 68.36% of patients with good recovery in ability to take care of themselves.
 There was 68.36% of patients with good family care ability. Up to 70.06% of patients had a good recreation recovery. The majority of patients recovered the ability to participate in good social activities of 63.28%. There were 88 patients (49.72%) with good occupational rehabilitation. Conclusion: Effective treatment of psychosocial rehabilitation therapy also plays a very important role. That helps patients reintegrate into the community (49.72%), restore self-care function (68.36%), entertainment function (70.06%), social function (63.28%) and especially work function (49.72%).

The Ability to Interact with Schizophrenic Patients through Socialization Group Activity Therapy

Social isolation is a disorder of interpersonal relationships that occurs due to an inflexible personality, whichcauses maladaptive behavior and interferes with one’s function in relationships. One of the nursing actionsfor schizophrenic patients with social isolation is Socialization Group Activity Therapy. Socialization GroupActivity Therapy is an effort to facilitate socialization skills in schizophrenia patients with social relationshipproblems. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of socialization group activity therapy onthe ability to interact with schizophrenic clients. The research design used one group pre-post test design,the sampling technique used was purposive sampling and the total sample was 21 respondents. The abilityto interact socially was measured using a questionnaire sheet before and after therapy using a paired sampletest. The analysis showed that there was a significant effect with p = 0.014 (p <0.05). The conclusion is thatSocialization Group Activity Therapy is one of the effective therapies to improve the interaction ability ofschizophrenic patients.

The Effect of Perception Stimulation Group Activity Therapy on Controlling Ability of Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a personality that is divided between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. One of the most common symptoms of schizophrenia is hallucinations. The highest number of schizophrenic patients with hallucinations was 83 people in the Merpati Room of Prof. HB Sa'anin Hospital in Padang. Therapy is usually given in the management of overcoming hallucinations, one of which is Group Activity Therapy (GAT). The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of Perception Stimulation Group Activity Therapy on the Ability to Control Hallucinations in Schizophrenia Patients at Prof Sa'anin Hospital Padang in 2019. This study uses a Quasi Experiment research design using one group pre-post-test. The population is schizophrenia patients with hallucinations in Prof Sa'anin Hospital in Padang, about 206 persons. Sampling is done by Samples taken were 50 persons, with purposive sampling. The analysis is t-dependent. The results showed a significant difference between the ability of patients between before and after Perception Stimulation Group Activity Therapy with a P-value = 0.000 or α <0.05. It is expected that Prof. Sa'anin Padang's nurses will be more optimal in the implementation of GAT, and improve the implementation of quality GAT according to the grouping of nursing diagnoses so that the ability of schizophrenic patients with hallucinations can be achieved
 
 Keywords: schizophrenia, hallucinations, group activity therapy

Pengaruh Terapi Aktivitas Kelompok dengan Stimulasi Persepsi terhadap Kemampuan Mengontrol Halusinasi pada Pasien Skizofrenia

The prevalence of mental emotional disorders indicated by symptoms of depression and anxiety for ages 15 years and over reaches around 14 million people or 6% of the total population of Indonesia. While the prevalence of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, reaches around 400,000 people or as many as 1.7 per 1,000 residents. Hallucinations are one of the symptoms of schizophrenic mental disorder. Therapy Activities Groups with perceptual stimulation are therapies that use activities to perceive various stimulations related to experience with life to be discussed in groups. The aim of the research was to know the effect of group activity therapy on hallucinogenic control ability in schizophrenic patients in Jambi Province Mental Hospital in 2018. This study used a quasi experimental design with a design of one group design with pretest and posttest. The study was conducted at the Jambi Province Mental Hospital in June-September 2018 with a total sample of 30 people taken by purposive sampling. The results of this study are that there is a significant effect of group activity therapy on hallucinogenic control ability in schizophrenic patients at Jambi Province Mental Hospital. This study is expected to increase knowledge, understanding and skills of mental nurses in treating or treating schizophrenic patients, to improve the ability to control the hallucinations of schizophrenic patients through therapeutic activities of perception simulation groups by applying group activity therapy.

Figurative Language Comprehension in Schizophrenia and Its Neural Basis

Schizophrenia is a kind of serious mental disease, which may cause major impairment in patients’ social-cognitive ability. It has been found that pragmatic ability in schizophrenic patients is often impaired, especially for figurative language comprehension. Figurative language refers to irony, metaphor, idiom and the like. People with schizophrenia tend to interpret figurative language as its literal meaning, which is called schizophrenic concretism. By reviewing extant literature, we found that the literature concerning this topic mainly consists of two parts: behavioral studies and brain-imaging studies. The behavioral studies mainly explore how clinical factors and cognitive ability have an impact on figurative language comprehension. Brain-imaging studies mainly discuss hemisphere lateralization in schizophrenia and whether theory of mind network in schizophrenic patients is different from that of normal groups. We conclude that future research should further explore the relationship among figurative language comprehension, cognitive ability and clinical factors, and also reveal related neural mechanism.

Self management status and influencing factors of schizophrenia patients in community

Objective To investigate the present situation and analyze the influence factors of self-management ability of schizophrenic patients in community. Methods A total of 122 cases of schizophrenic patients in community that have been discharged from Zhenjiang Mental Health Center were investigated and analyzed by general information questionnaire, Schizophrenia Self-Management Ability Scale, quality of life and Social Support Rating Scale. Results The scores of self-management ability of schizophrenic patients in community were (68.74±10.24) points. Multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that long-term medication (t =2.351, P<0.05), degree of education(t =2.385, P<0.05), community rehabilitation guidance (t =3.813, P<0.01) and social support (t=2.768, P<0.01) were the influence factors of self-management ability of schizophrenic patients in community. Conclusions Schizophrenia patients in community medical staff should be aimed at strengthening the long-term medication in community rehabilitation guidance and social support, improvement, and strengthen the low degree of culture of patient care, to improve the ability of self-management. Key words: Community health centers; Schizophrenia; Self-management; Influence factors

The relationship among the metacognitive ability, empathy and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients in a post-acute phase of illness

Objective To explore the relationship among the metacognitive ability, empathy and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients. Methods Seventy-seven schizophrenic patients in a post-acute phase of illness and thirty-four patients with neuroses were assessed with the abbreviated-metacognition assessment scale (MAS-A) and the interpersonal reactivity index-C(IRI-C), and eighty-six normal subjects were rated with the IRI-C. Additionally, psychotic symptoms of the schizophrenic patients were assessed with the positive and negative syndrome scale(PANSS). Results The MAS-A total score, the subscores in self-reflectivity, understanding of other’ mind, decentration, mastery of MAS-A (respectively(8.8±3.3), (3.4±1.1), (2.5±1.0), (0.4±0.6), (2.4±1.1)) were significantly lower in the schizophrenic patients group than those in the neurosis patients group (respectively (12.7±3.4), (4.9±1.2), (3.3±0.9), (1.1±0.7), (3.3±1.2))(all P<0.01). Correlation analysis showed that the MAS-A scores were significantly negatively correlated with the PANSS scores (r=-0.248--0.491, P<0.05), and the MAS-A scores had significantly positively correlation with the IRI-C scores (r=0.229-0.305, P<0.05), the relationship were persisted when the scores of PANSS were statistically controlled. Conclusion The metacognitive ability of schizophrenic patients are impaired, and the correlation between impaired matacognition and empathy deficit suggests that they share the same physiopathologic basis. Key words: Schizophrenia; Metacognition; Empathy; Psychotic symptom

Visual exploration and action processing in schizophrenia

Introduction. Visual scanning is widely reported to be abnormal in schizophrenia. The majority of eye movement studies in schizophrenic patients have used pictures of a face in isolation in free viewings. This study was designed to examine whether attentional control, through instructions, modulates the visuomotor behaviour in schizophrenia with pictures presenting a face accompanied by its body, and to investigate the ability of schizophrenic patients to recognise others’ actions. Method. Visual scan paths were monitored in 26 schizophrenic patients and 26 controls. Participants performed three tasks in which they were asked either to look at the picture in any way they liked, to determine the character's gender, or to recognise the action that the character was making with an object. Results. Patients explored less the pictures than controls in the free viewing. Their scan paths did not differ from that of controls in the active viewings, though patients tended to “avoid” looking at the character's face in the action recognition task. Conclusion. The results show that patients are able to normalise their pattern of exploration as a function of task demands. The results are discussed in relation to attentional control, cognitive flexibility, dopamine, and processing of context information.

Neurocognitive basis of impaired empathy in schizophrenia.

Patients with schizophrenia show impaired emotional and social behavior, such as lack of theory of mind and misinterpretation of social situations. However, there is a paucity of work focusing on the empathic abilities of these patients. The present study was designed to examine the degree of impairment in cognitive and affective empathy in schizophrenia and to evaluate the contribution of executive prefrontal functions to empathy in these patients. To explore the neurocognitive processes that underlie the empathic ability in schizophrenic patients, the relationship between empathy scores and the performance on a cognitive flexibility task that assesses dorsolateral and orbitofrontal functioning (set shifting and reversal, respectively) was examined in 26 patients with schizophrenia and 31 healthy control subjects. Results indicated that patients with schizophrenia were significantly impaired in both cognitive and affective empathy compared with healthy control subjects. The degree of impaired empathy related to the severity of negative symptoms. In addition, patients showed impaired performance on measures of both shifting and reversal. However, while cognitive empathy was particularly related to measurements of orbitofrontal (rather than dorsolateral) functioning, affective empathy was related to measures of social functioning.

Effects of haloperidol and risperidone on psychomotor performance relevant to driving ability in schizophrenic patients compared to healthy controls

The effects of antipsychotic treatment on the psychomotor performance and driving ability of schizophrenic patients is subject of investigation. The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of an atypical neuroleptic (risperidone) in comparison to a conventional dopamine antagonist neuroleptic (haloperidol) on several dimensions of psychomotor performance (visual perception, attention, reaction time, and sensorimotor performance) considered to be of relevance in evaluating driving fitness. Psychomotor performance was assessed by means of the ART 90 (act-and-react test), a computerized test battery which is frequently used in diagnosis of psychomotor performance. The 40 participating patients were examined at discharge following psychopathological stabilisation; 20 received haloperidol medication, 20 received the atypical neuroleptic risperidone. Nineteen healthy individuals were studied as a control group. Our findings indicate a remarkably reduced psychomotor performance in both groups of schizophrenic patients compared to healthy controls. We did find a significant but low correlation between age and some items of the RST3 and between age and the tracking performance on the PVT. The younger patients showed a better test performance than older patients. The BPRS-score was significantly correlated with only two items of the RST3. However, patients under treatment with risperidone showed significantly better results compared to patients treated with haloperidol. Only one (5%) subject passed all subtests without major failures and could be regarded as competent to drive. Among patients with risperidone, seven patients (35%) passed all test parameters without major failures. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

Theory of Mind in schizophrenia: First person vs third person perspective

Patients suffering from schizophrenia have an impaired meta-representation also known as Theory of Mind (ToM). Moreover, the presence of delusions or other positive symptoms of schizophrenia has been correlated to poor ToM performances. Lack of insight is a common symptom of schizophrenia and can be considered a critical manifestation of impaired ToM abilities. In particular, the present study addresses the role of perspective ToM ability in schizophrenic patients. Thirty severely delusional schizophrenic patients completely lack insight when interviewed about their delusions. Seven subsequently gain insight about their mental state when perspective is shifted from the first person to third person. These data suggest that in some delusional schizophrenic patients, it may be possible to gain access to and modify their mental states.

Effects of Haloperidol and Atypical Neuroleptics on Psychomotor Performance and Driving Ability in Schizophrenic Patients

The influence of antipsychotic treatment on the neuropsychological and psychomotor performance of schizophrenic patients is still a subject of investigation. The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of atypical neuroleptics in comparison with a conventional dopamine antagonist neuroleptic (haloperidol) on several dimensions of psychomotor performance (visual perception, attention, reaction time, and sensorimotor performance) considered to be of relevance in evaluating driving fitness. Psychomotor performance was assessed by means of the ART 90, a computerized Act and React Test which is generally used in diagnosis of psychomotor performance. The 49 participating patients were examined at discharge following psychopathological stabilisation; 20 received haloperidol, 29 received an atypical neuroleptic. Our findings demonstrate a remarkably reduced psychomotor performance in the haloperidol-treated group of schizophrenic patients compared with patients treated with atypical neuroleptics. Only 1 (5%) subject passed all subtests without major failures and could be regarded as competent to drive. Among patients with atypical neuroleptics, 7 patients (24%) passed all test parameters without major failures.

On the ability of schizophrenic patients to learn control of inter-hemispheric slow potential negativity

On the ability of schizophrenic patients to learn control of inter-hemispheric slow potential negativity

Relationship of Insight into disease with Personality Trait and Work Ability in Schizophrenic Patients

Relationship of Insight into disease with Personality Trait and Work Ability in Schizophrenic Patients

The effect of psychopathology on the ability of schizophrenic patients to give informed consent.

The effect of psychopathology on the ability of schizophrenic patients to give informed consent.

Impairment and improvement of the abstracting ability in schizophrenic patients

Impairment and improvement of the abstracting ability in schizophrenic patients