The effectiveness of supportive care on positive and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia

Fatemeh Rangrazian¹ Azar Kiamarsi²

1) PhD student, Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
2) Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil Branch, Ardabil, Iran

IOI Code : XEAE-GCBHE
Publication : 2th National Conference on Psychopathology(asruma2.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of supportive care on positive / negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. The present study was an applied experimental study in the form of pre-test-post-test with a control group. The study population consisted of all patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia admitted to Shafa Hospital in Rasht in 2019 (N = 796). The study sample consisted of 34 patients with schizophrenia who were purposefully selected and placed in experimental groups based on gender (experimental treatment of 17 patients) and control (17 patients). The negative symptom assessment scale (Andrissen, 1990) and the positive symptom assessment scale (Andrissen, 1985) were used to collect data. The intervention method was performed in 9 sessions of 90 minutes twice a week in a group and the data were analyzed from descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance. The results showed that supportive psychotherapy was effective in reducing positive / negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients (p<0.05). The results indicate the effect of this treatment on the positive / negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients and can be effective by the therapists used.

Keywords : schizophrenia supportive treatment positive and negative symptoms