Research on the Efficacy of Multiple Family Therapy on Rehabilitation of Children with Schizophrenia / 沈阳医学院学报

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore rehabilitation of children with schizophrenia whether the multiple family therapy group has a better short-term and long-term efficacy. Methods:A total of 133 convalescent children with schizophrenia were randomly divided into three groups, 45 children were in multiple family therapy group, 45 children were in individual family therapy group, 43 children were in the simple drug group who accept simple drug treatment. All subjects participate in the pre-test, post-test and follow-up test after three months with the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and Personal and Social Performance Scale (PSP) . Results:There were significantly different in multiple family therapy group and individual family therapy group by PANSS and PSP total score among pre-test,post-test and follow-up test after three months (P<0.01),while the difference in the simple drug group was not significant. The total score of PANSS and PSP were significant except the scores of the post-test and follow-up test after three months. The multiple family therapy group had the best effect total score of PANSS and PSP. The analysis of the difference among groups indicated that the multiple family therapy group’ s total scores of PANSS and PSP were significantly higher than that in other two groups in post-test and follow-up test (P<0.01) . Conclusion:The multiple family therapy has a distinct advantage on improving the symptoms and social function of children with schizophrenia than individual family therapy and single drug treatment,both short-term effect and long-term effect.