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The effects on helplessness and recovery of an empowerment program for hospitalized persons with schizophrenia
1Suncheon Eun Hospital, Suncheon, Chonnam, South Korea.
Purpose:
The study aim was to evaluate the effects on helplessness and recovery of an empowering program for patients with chronic schizophrenia.
Design And Methods:
A repeated-measure design with a control group was used. The subjects consisted of 46 patients with schizophrenia admitted in three psychiatric hospitals in South Korea. The experimental group (n = 23) received the empowering program twice a week for 60 min, with a total of 6 weeks.
Findings:
This finding revealed that the empowering program was effective on helplessness (F = 185.218, p <.001) and recovery (F = 159.402, p <.001, F = 34.154, p <.001) of hospitalized persons with schizophrenia.
Practice Implications:
This study demonstrated that the empowering program can be a useful psychiatric nursing intervention.
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