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Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research
Psychiatry Nursing & Psychiatry 2019
June 17-18, 2019
Psychiatry & Mental health Nursing
Psychiatry and Mental Health
June 17-18, 2019 | Rome, Italy
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Factors associated with empathy of schizophrenia patients in psychiatric rehabilitation
and recovery
Enuju Song
Wonkwang University, South Korea
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any schizophrenia patients have been participating social skill
training or psychiatric rehabilitation program for improvement of
communication ability. In particular, empathy is the most important of
communication ability which is to understand the thoughts and feelings
of others, it is essential of their life, and must depends for successful
social interaction. Thus, this study investigated the motivation-
pleasure, and social anhedonia of schizophrenia patients in psychiatric
rehabilitation and recovery. The purpose of this study is to investigate
the factors affecting the empathy of schizophrenia patients in psychiatric
rehabilitation and recovery.
Methodology:
This studyhad a descriptive design, using a cross-sectional
survey to assess the empathy, social anhedonia, and motivation-pleasure
level of patients with schizophrenia during psychiatric rehabilitation or
recovery. 118 Participants were patients with schizophrenia who were
admitted 5 mental health rehabilitation centers located in 2 provinces of
South Korea. The data collection period was November in 2018. In order to measure empathy of the schizophrenia
patients in this study, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) used self-reported scales. In addition to the Motivation
and Pleasure Scale-Self-Report (MAP-SR) and social anhedonia scale used to measure the effect on empathy.
Findings:
The results of this study showed a high correlation between empathy, motivation-pleasure, and social
anhedonia. The variables affecting empathy were age, motivation-pleasure, social anhedonia, and the explanatory
power of the variables was 32.6%.
Conclusion:
The results of this study suggest that the empathy-enhancing program will be more effective at the
early stage of disease and at the younger age in order to help schizophrenia to succeed in vocational rehabilitation.
In addition, many patients in the recovery period need of communication education, so it is necessary to develop
an intervention program.
Biography
Song has her expertise in improving the psychiatric mental health for schizophrenia. She is associate professor of psychiatric mental
health nursing, the dean of nursing department in Wonkwang University, and have been working many researches for psychiatric
patients. Especially, she interests in schizophrenia and alcohol abuse disorders. This research was supported by National Research
Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korea government (No. 2018R1D1A1B07043235).
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