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Objective : To investigate the effect of social skills training on the improvement of sociability and social adaptability of outpatients with schizophrenia. Methods ¡¤ Thirty-eight cases of patients met ICD-10 diagnostic criteria received social skills training once a week for 12 weeks; Social Skills Checklist (SSC) and Social Adaptive Functioning Evaluation (SAFE) were conducted before and after the training assessment respectively. The patients were divided into different groups according to the levels of mental disability based on Social Disability Screening Schedule (SDSS) before training, and the effect of social skills training were compared among the groups. Results ¡¤ The scores on conversa-tion, conflict resolution and build relationships ability and total scores in SSC decreased after social skills training (P=0.000 in all). The scores on basic life skills, advanced life skills, communication skills and social skills, as well as the total score in SAFE decreased after training (P<0.01 in all). Conclusion ¡¤ Social skills training can effectively improve the social skills and social adaptability of outpatients with schizophrenia.
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56 school-aged children with epilepsy and 37 normal ones of the same gender,age and educational level were selected. All the subjects' parents completed the child adaptive behavior scale, the mutiple stepwise linear re-gression was used to explore the impact of epilepsy related factors on social adaptive function. The social adaptive function of school-aged children with epilepsy faulty is affected by seizure frequence,gender,age,epilepsy control, clinical course,and the number of antiepileptic drugs.