Psychological status of parents with schizophrenia Investigation and Health Education.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Psychological status of parents with schizophrenia Investigation and Health Education Author: Huang Shen Zhong XUE Rong-Liang Chen Chuan-Hua [Keywords:] Schizophrenia; health education; patients with parents; psychological problems Schizophrenia is a group of cause not yet clear that protracted illness, social function impairment in mental disorders. Multi-onset in young adults, after the illness to patients and families and economic burden of the heavy pressure [1]. Patients with psychological state of parents can have a direct impact on the prognosis of patients in clinical practice in the treatment of patients with their parents while also carry out health education to improve their handling capacity of unexpected events to reduce psychological tension, reduce anxiety and depression and other psychological problems. Female patients with schizophrenia in order to explore the psychological condition of parents, the authors conducted a related investigation and the psychological problems of their place to impose the appropriate health education and psychological intervention, will now report on the results as follows. An object and methods 1.1 Object Selected in June 2003 ~ December 2004 hospitalized in our hospital are in line with ‘Chinese classification and diagnostic criteria for mental disorders’ version 3 (CCMD3) [2] diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia of 98 cases of parents of female patients with schizophrenia for the investigation. In which the father 53, mother 45; age 40 ~ 68a. 1.2 Methods 1.2.1 Health Education Using self-compiled the parents of her daughter’s illness and hospitalization on the views of parents, a questionnaire survey of patients by Zhuguanhushi directly with patients or physicians interview their parents to understand their attitudes and the existence of patients with psychological problems, for targeted health education, mainly to explain the general knowledge of schizophrenia, psychotropic substa