BACKGROUND: Comprehensive insight regarding better treatment and social reintegration of patients with schizophrenia has been gained over the past decade. Implementation of this knowledge into everyday's practice should be a major aim prior to the research on new variants of rehabilitative measures. To which extent this takes place has been poorly discussed until now. METHOD: Our comprehensive treatment program includes psychoeducation for patients and relatives, cognitive training, social skills training, additional psychoeducation for patients with dual diagnosis and a variety of a traditional group therapies like work therapy. An intensive cooperation is practised with complementary psycho-social services. In n = 89 consecutive admissions lasting at least 2 weeks we examined which patients were reached by these treatment offers. RESULTS: 84% of the patients participated in group therapies, where they passed 6.9 hours weekly on average. Most patients were reached by occupation therapy (62%), followed by physical therapy (54%), unspecific conversation group (54%), psychoeducation (35%), cognitive training (30%), work therapy (26%) and social skills training (7%). The PANSS Positive Scale at admission was negatively correlated with participation in group therapies. DISCUSSION: The implementation of a variety of psychotherapeutic offers for psychotic patients adequate to the state of the art can be achieved under conditions of standard hospital care in Germany (Psych-PV-law). Required organizational measures therefore are programs offered for patients of several wards in union and participation of employees in education. However, even by such efforts a considerable part of patients is not reached. Strategies to improve treatment results should consider these problems.
BACKGROUND: Comprehensive insight regarding better treatment and social reintegration of patients with schizophrenia has been gained over the past decade. Implementation of this knowledge into everyday's practice should be a major aim prior to the research on new variants of rehabilitative measures. To which extent this takes place has been poorly discussed until now. METHOD: Our comprehensive treatment program includes psychoeducation for patients and relatives, cognitive training, social skills training, additional psychoeducation for patients with dual diagnosis and a variety of a traditional group therapies like work therapy. An intensive cooperation is practised with complementary psycho-social services. In n = 89 consecutive admissions lasting at least 2 weeks we examined which patients were reached by these treatment offers. RESULTS: 84% of the patients participated in group therapies, where they passed 6.9 hours weekly on average. Most patients were reached by occupation therapy (62%), followed by physical therapy (54%), unspecific conversation group (54%), psychoeducation (35%), cognitive training (30%), work therapy (26%) and social skills training (7%). The PANSS Positive Scale at admission was negatively correlated with participation in group therapies. DISCUSSION: The implementation of a variety of psychotherapeutic offers for psychoticpatients adequate to the state of the art can be achieved under conditions of standard hospital care in Germany (Psych-PV-law). Required organizational measures therefore are programs offered for patients of several wards in union and participation of employees in education. However, even by such efforts a considerable part of patients is not reached. Strategies to improve treatment results should consider these problems.