Esmaeili Ali Akbar, Saeidi Amir, Mohammadi Yahya, Raeisoon Mohammadreza
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran.
Heliyon. 2022 Jul 8;8(7):e09817. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09817. eCollection 2022 Jul.
Mental disorders are among the most common diseases in the world. Not only the lack of social support and health services but also the social stigma surrounding individuals with mental disorders and their family members has exacerbated the difficulty of living with and caring for these patients. The present study aimed to determine the effect of group psychological training on the attitudes of family caregivers taking care of patients with schizophrenia as a common mental disorder.
This interventional study was conducted on 60 caregivers of patients with schizophrenia who had a history of hospitalization in the psychiatric ward of Imam Reza Hospital of Birjand in 2020. The intervention group attended eight 90-minute sessions of psychological training in four weeks. However, the control group received no educational intervention during the study period. the opinions about mental illness scale (OMI) modified by Cohen and Struening was used to collect data before and after the intervention. Data were analyzed using SPSS by running descriptive statistics, Chi-square, independent t-test, and paired t-test at the significance level of 0.05.
The mean scores of attitudes toward mental illness were not significantly different between the intervention (87.37 ± 15.51) and control (89.48 ± 14.08) groups before the intervention (P > 0.05). However, the mean scores of the intervention group (156.44 ± 10.09) increased significantly compared to the mean scores of the control group (88.4 ± 16.15) followed by the intervention (P < 0.05).
According to the study results, psychological group training is effective in improving the attitudes of family caregivers of schizophrenic patients. So, it can be applied method of this study as simple, low-cost, and effective in improving the life quality of schizophrenic patients and their families.
精神障碍是世界上最常见的疾病之一。不仅社会支持和卫生服务的缺乏，而且围绕精神障碍患者及其家庭成员的社会污名化加剧了与这些患者一起生活和照顾他们的难度。本研究旨在确定团体心理训练对照顾精神分裂症患者（一种常见精神障碍）的家庭照顾者态度的影响。
本干预性研究对60名2020年在比尔詹德伊玛目礼萨医院精神科病房有住院史的精神分裂症患者的照顾者进行。干预组在四周内参加了八次每次90分钟的心理训练课程。然而，对照组在研究期间未接受任何教育干预。使用由科恩和斯特鲁宁修改的关于精神疾病的意见量表（OMI）在干预前后收集数据。使用SPSS进行数据分析，运行描述性统计、卡方检验、独立t检验和配对t检验，显著性水平为0.05。
干预前，干预组（87.37±15.51）和对照组（89.48±14.08）对精神疾病态度的平均得分无显著差异（P>0.05）。然而，干预后，干预组的平均得分（156.44±10.09）与对照组的平均得分（88.4±16.15）相比显著增加（P<0.05）。
根据研究结果，团体心理训练在改善精神分裂症患者家庭照顾者的态度方面是有效的。因此，本研究方法可作为一种简单、低成本且有效的方法来提高精神分裂症患者及其家庭的生活质量。
