Objective To explor the influence of the hospital-community-family mental rehabilitation mode on the quality of life of patients with schizophrenia. Methods We selected 101 patients diagnosed as schizophrenia according to ICD-10, who were hospitalized in mental health center of the West China Hospital and took part in rehabilitation voluntarily after discharge. Those patients were randomly assigned to two groups. Hospital-community-family mental rehabilitation mode intervention was applied to the patients based on inpatient rehabilitation in the trial group (n=52), while inpatient rehabilitation alone was applied in the control group (n=49). The total score of quality of life, psycho-social dimension, motivation and energy dimension, score of mental disability and social function, and family social care index were recorded. Then, statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 17.0 software. Results After 3 months and 6 months, the trial group had lower scores of the total score of quality of life, psycho-social domain, and motive and energy dimension than those of the control group (Plt;0.05). After 6 months, the trial group had lower scores of mental disability and social function (Plt;0.05) but a higher score of family social care index (Plt;0.05). The scores of WHO-DSA II and SQLS were positively correlated, while the scores of APGAR and SQLS were negatively correlated. Conclusion The integral mode of hospital-community-family mental rehabilitation effectively improves the quality of life of patients with schizophrenia, which also positively improves patients’ rehabilitation.
Objective To investigate the difference in first onset age, family history and medication compliance between male and female patients with schizophrenia in communities. Methods We used self-designed questionnaire to survey and analyze 372 cases of schizophrenia between June to August 2014. Results There were no significant differences between male and female schizophrenic patients in the family history, personality before the disease, education level, age, and the onset type and disease course (P > 0.05). The first onset age of male patients [(24.92±8.22) years] was significantly earlier than female patients [(27.02±11.28) years] and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The number of unmarried male patients (115, 58.97%) was significantly more than unmarried females (81, 45.76%) and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The full medication compliance rate of female patients (127, 71.75%) was significantly better than that of male patients (115, 58.97%) (P < 0.05). Conclusion The first onset age, marital status and medication compliance are significantly different between the two genders of patients with schizophrenia, which indicates that prevention, treatment and recovery measures for male and female patients should be differentiated.
Objective To investigate the suicide related factors of the teenagers after trauma and further discuss the prevalence and related factors of suicide idea plan and behavior. Methods Using the general information questionnaire and the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) to investigate the primary and secondary students in the nine worst-hit areas in Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, with cluster random sampling and the class as a sampling unit, to extract random 110 primary and middle schools and gather their general information, disaster-related cases and scores of suicide in YRBS. According to the different types of data, we used descriptive statistics,t test,Chi square test and Logistic regression analysis and respectively use single factor analysis and multivariate logistic regression analysis for suicide idea, plan and behavior. Results A total of 7 833 questionnaires were sent out and a total of 7 521 questionnaires were collected and the recovery rate was 96. 02%. Among them, there were 6 875 valid questionnaires (91.41%) and 636 invalid questionnaires. According to the investigation, the prevalence of the primary and secondary students which had seriously considered suicide was 6. 90%, which had a plan to commit suicide was 4.00% and which tried to take over the action of suicide was 2.70%. With general information for the independent variable, logistic regression analysis showed that whether there had seriously considered suicide as the dependent variable: age (OR=1.178, 95%CI 1.098 to 1.178) and changed in family structure after the earthquake (OR=1.360, 95%CI 1.360 to 1.085) were risk factors for post disaster the teenagers with suicide idea; whether there had been plan to commit suicide as the dependent variable: age (OR=1.099, 95%CI 1.050 to 1.150), the history of being buried in ruin (OR=2.155, 95%CI to 1.104 to 4.205) and changed in family structure after the earthquake (OR=1.495, 95%CI 1.128 to 1.981) were risk factors for post disaster the teenagers with suicide plan; whether took over the action of suicide as the dependent variable: male (OR=1.513, 95%CI 1.122 to 2.039) and changed in family structure after the earthquake (OR=1.555, 95%CI 1.112 to 2.175) were risk factors for post disaster the teenagers with suicide behavior. Conclusion Age and changed in family structure after the earthquake were the risk factors for suicide idea and age was positively correlated with suicidal idea. Age, had the history of being buried in ruin and changed in family structure after the earthquake were the risk factors for suicide plan and age was positively associated with suicide plan. Male and changed in family structure after the earthquake were the risk factors for suicide behavior. Among them, changed in family structure after the earthquake was the common risk factor. So there should be targeted psychological assessment and psychological rehabilitation intervention to avoid the risk of suicide among the teenagers after the disaster.
Objective To evaluate the mental status of survivors after Wenchuan earthquake, so as to provide relevant information for psychological and medical intervention. Methods Demographic data was recorded and the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) was evaluated. The acute stress disorder (ASD) were assessed with the DSM-IV criteria in the survivors from the central earthquake area who are now living in two shelters in Chengdu. Results Among the 780 retrieved questionnaires, 729 baseline registration forms and 450 PCL-C were valid. In the 729 baseline registration forms, male to female ratio was 1:1.31 and the mean age was 36.73±20.82. 9.5% of subjects suffered from physical diseases, 9.7% needed assistance in daily activities, 70.7% were passive and didn’t participate in community activities, 9.1% suffered from severe psychological problems. In the present study, 30.9% of subjects were found to meet the DSM-IV criteria for ASD. 41.3%, 22.2% and 18.4% of subjects had a PCL-C score ≥ 38, ≥ 45 and ≥50, respectively. Consistency check showed there was no significant difference between the screening result of PCL-C score ≥45 and clinical diagnosis (Kappa=0.780, P=0.033). There was significant difference in the age of subjects between ASD and non-ASD groups (Plt;0.05). Conclusion The earthquake survivors suffered from psychological problems after the disaster in the early stage. Thus, in addition to life rescue, we should pay more attention to psychological intervention.