Woods R T
Br J Psychiatry. 1979 May;134:502-7. doi: 10.1192/bjp.134.5.502.
A trial was carried out of Reality Orientation (R.O.) in a residential home for the elderly mentally infirm with a 'social therapy' control group, receiving the same amount of staff attention as the R.O. group, in addition to an untreated control group. R.O. residents improved more on tests of information and orientation and various aspects of memory than controls. These results support the hypothesis that the nature of staff attention is crucial and that it should encourage and reward appropriate behaviour. No differential effects of treatment were found on rating scale assessments of the resident's functioning in the home.
针对患有精神疾病的老年疗养院患者开展了一项关于现实导向疗法（R.O.）的试验，设有一个“社会疗法”对照组，该组除了接受与现实导向疗法组相同的工作人员关注外，还设有一个未接受治疗的对照组。与对照组相比，接受现实导向疗法的患者在信息与定向测试以及记忆的各个方面都有更大改善。这些结果支持了这样一种假设，即工作人员关注的性质至关重要，且应鼓励和奖励恰当行为。在对患者在疗养院功能的评定量表评估中，未发现治疗有差异效应。
