Effects of a Short Emotional Management Program on Inpatients with Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study.

摘要: The prevalence of schizophrenia is gradually increasing worldwide. Many patients with have a diminished ability to empathize and detect their own emotions or those others, deteriorating social functioning quality life. Nonetheless, emotional management training may improve patients' emotion recognition, expression, negative symptoms. Developing applying short but effective program that reflects the current medical environment, in which hospital stays are ever-diminishing, warranted. This one-group, pretest-posttest, quasi-experimental pilot study aimed examine effects (EMP-S) on 17 chronic schizophrenia. Participants were hospitalized National Center for Mental Health Korea. After completion twice-a-week, eight-session, four-week long EMP-S, participants showed improvements Our results suggest applicability potential effectiveness takes length psychiatric stay inpatient environment into consideration. To minimize any barriers post-discharge lives inpatients enhance cognition-by improving symptoms-we periodical administration this EMP-S these inpatients.