Therapeutic Efficacy of Family Psycho-Education in Reducing Syndrome Severity among Schizophrenic Patients in Neuro-Psychiatric Specialist Hospital, Ondo State
- October 28, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Applied Science, IJRSI
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue X, October 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705
Ayeni, Bamidele Abiodun, Ayeni, Adebusola Raphael, Abiodun, Oluwaseun O, Ahmed, Ayodeji E.
College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Achievers University, Owo, Nigeria
Corresponding author*
Abstract: The study examined therapeutic efficacy of family psycho-education in reducing syndrome severity among schizophrenic patients at the Neuro-Psychiatric Specialist Hospital, Akure, Ondo-State, South-Western part of Nigeria. Twenty respondents participated in the study. They were divided into two groups; experimental and control groups using simple random sampling technique. Group A belong to experimental group and; consisted of ten schizophrenic respondents, while Group B consisted of ten schizophrenic respondents and were classified as control group. The experimental group was exposed to family psycho-education (FPE) and drug therapy, while, the control group was exposed to drug therapy only. The study design is field experiment. The instrument used for the collection of data was Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale while, between subject Independent t-test statistics was used for statistical analysis using SPSS version 16.0. Findings revealed a significant difference in syndrome severity between the experimental and control groups after therapeutic intervention t (18) = -2.390, p<.05. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered significant for the analyses. Based on this findings, it is recommended that drug therapy and Family Psychoeducation should be integrated together to enhance holistic intervention for schizophrenic patients. Stress-vulnerability model was adopted as an explanatory model for the study.
I. INTRODUCTION
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterized by a variety of symptoms including, but not limited to loss of contact with reality. Furthermore, it could be referred to as a severe disorder of the brain expressed by disturbed behaviour and abnormal mental functioning. Schizophrenia patients have problems in how they think and what they think, thought and language are often disorganized; words have meaning only to the schizophrenic patients speaking them and the contents of their thinking is also disturbed. People with schizophrenia are found of seeing what others cannot see, hear what others do not hear, smell what others cannot perceive as odours.
