Arzu Yıldırım1, Rabia Hacıhasanoğlu Aşılar1, Tuba Hale Camcıoğlu2, Sezgin Erdiman3, Ebru Karaağaç4. 1. Deparment of Nursing, Erzincan University School of Health, Erzincan, Turkey. 2. Sadi Konuk Educational and Research Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic, İstanbul, Turkey. 3. Balıkesir Atatürk State Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic, Balıkesir, Turkey. 4. Institute of Health Sciences, Erzincan, Turkey.
Abstract
PURPOSE: This study was performed for the purpose of determining the effect of psychosocial skills training (PSST) on disease symptoms, insight, internalized stigmatization, and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia. DESIGN: One group pretest-posttest model. METHOD: The study was carried out with 25 outpatients who were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The PSST was given to three groups of eight to nine patients once a week in 24 sessions, each lasting 90-120 minutes for a period of 6 months. FINDINGS: The program had significant results in schizophrenic patients in improving the level of symptoms, increasing the level of functioning, and coping with stigmatization. CONCLUSION: The PSST program, adjuvant to pharmacological treatments, can be considered as a significant modality in daily practice due to its effect on improving symptoms, insight, and level of functioning and decreasing internalized stigmatization. CLINICAL RELEVANCES: PSST in patients with schizophrenia can contribute to the use of evidence-based education strategies in psychiatric nursing practice to improve coping skills with the disease.
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PURPOSE: This study was performed for the purpose of determining the effect of psychosocial skills training (PSST) on disease symptoms, insight, internalized stigmatization, and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia. DESIGN: One group pretest-posttest model. METHOD: The study was carried out with 25 outpatients who were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The PSST was given to three groups of eight to nine patients once a week in 24 sessions, each lasting 90-120 minutes for a period of 6 months. FINDINGS: The program had significant results in schizophrenicpatients in improving the level of symptoms, increasing the level of functioning, and coping with stigmatization. CONCLUSION: The PSST program, adjuvant to pharmacological treatments, can be considered as a significant modality in daily practice due to its effect on improving symptoms, insight, and level of functioning and decreasing internalized stigmatization. CLINICAL RELEVANCES: PSST in patients with schizophrenia can contribute to the use of evidence-based education strategies in psychiatric nursing practice to improve coping skills with the disease.