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Objective To investigate the impact of Friedman family intervention model on the personal life ability and psychological status of caregivers of early Alzheimer's disease patients.Methods 66 Alzheimer's disease patients,according to the random sequence,were divided into the study group and the control group with 33 patients in each group respectively.The control group received routine geriatric care,the study group was given Friedman family intervention model on the basis of routine geriatric care.Two groups were estimated with Life Scale Index and ADL before intervention and two months after intervention respectively,and the matching caregiver were evaluated with Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90).Results Compared with the control group,the quality of daily life after the intervention of the study group was significantly improved,and the differences of daily living skills between two groups were statistically significant.The differences of the SCL-90 total score and depression,anxiety,somatization,interpersonal factor scores of caregivers between the two groups were statistically significant after two months of intervention.Conclusions The application of Friedman family intervention model plays a significant role in the improvement of the quality of daily life and daily living skills in patients with Alzheimer's disease,and can improve the psychological status of the caregivers of AD patients.
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Objective To evaluate the influence of family intervention mode in patients with schizophrenia characterized by negative symptoms.Methods A total of 120 cases of hospitalized patients with schizophrenia characterized by negative symptoms were randomly divided into the observation group and the control group with 60 cases in each group.The observation group received treatment through family intervention mode based upon routine care,while the control group used routine care.Influences were assessed with Nurses’ Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation (NOSIE) and the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) before treatment and at the end of 6th,12th week treatment.Results No significant difference of NOSIE score or SANS score were found upon admission between the observation group and the control group.At the end of the 6th week or the 12th week,total and all factors’ scores of the NOSIE and SANS of both groups were better compared with pretreatment,the observation group was significantly better than the control group.Conclusions Family intervention model could significantly relieve the negative symptoms of schizophrenia,improve the patients’ clinical efficacy and is an effective adjunctive therapy for schizophrenia.