ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the effect of psychological behavioral intervention for the parents of the inpatients with schizo-phrenia .Methods 76 firstly hospitalized cases of schizophrenia were randomly divided into the psychological behavior intervention group and the routine group with 38 cases in each group .The parents in the intervention group were implemented the psychological behavior intervention .All patients were assessed with the Family Concern Index Questionnaire (APGAR) ,the Brief Psychiatric Rat-ing Scale(BPRS) and Inpatient Psychiatric Rehabilitation Outcome Scale (IPROS) .Results The obtained family support level in the intervention group was significant higher than that in the routine group (P<0 .01);the scores of BPRS and IPROS in the interven-tion group were significantly lower than those in the routine group(P<0 .01);the total APGAR scores were negatively correlated with the total BPRS scores(r= -0 .496 ,P<0 .01) and the total IPROS scores(r= -0 .453 ,P<0 .01) .Conclusion The psycho-logical behavior intervention conduces to guide the parents of firstly hospitalized inpatients with schizophrenia to provide the effec-tive family support to the patients for promoting their rehabilitation .