TY  - JOUR
T1  - Comparison the Impact of Home Care Services and Telephone Follow up on Rehospitalization and Mental Condition of Schizophrenic Patients
AU - Khoshknab, Masoud Fallahi AU - Niksalehi, Sara AU - Rahgo, Abolfazl AU - Rahgozar, Mahdi AU - Khankeh, Hamidreza AU - Bamdad, Maryam 
JO  - Research Journal of Biological Sciences
VL  - 6
IS  - 9
SP  - 440
EP  - 445
PY  - 2011
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-8846
DO  - rjbsci.2011.440.445
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjbsci.2011.440.445
KW  - Schizophrenia
KW  -rehospitalization
KW  -relapse
KW  -nursing home care services
KW  -telephone follow up
KW  -brief psychiatric rating scale
AB  - Many difficulties of rehospitalization and readmission and also high cost of hospitalization has caused paying more attention to after care follow up services in chronic disorders especially schizophrenia. This study aimed to compare the impact of two follow up methods in rate of rehospitzalization, length of hospitalization and mental condition of schizophrenics. In this research, 62 people who were officially diagnosed as schizophrenic has participated in this experimental study. Participants, using Randomized Permuted Block Method, has been placed in three groups. The 21 persons in home care group, 21 persons in telephone follow up group and 20 persons in control group. Demographic questionare and BPRS was filled for all participants and after each month of intervention BPRS was refilled. In order to analyze the data, ANOVA, sequential LSD and Paired t-test were utilized. Results showed home care group had lower rate of rehospitalization and shorter length of hospitalization. This group had statistically significantly better mental condition than control group. Telephone follow up group members discharged sooner and experienced significantly better mental condition but more frequent rehospitalization than 2 other groups. Nursing home care services are more effective than telephone follow up and can lead to improvement of schizophrenic mental condition, reduction in rate of rehospitalization and length of study. Telephone follow up services leads to increase in hospitalization but decrease in number of the days of hospitalization and also improvement of mental condition which shows the impact of intervention.
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