Conference paper
TREATMENT OF PATIENTS IN EARLY PHASE OF PSYCHOSIS ON PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC INPATIENT UNIT – PRESENTATION OF THE THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMME AND EVALUATION OF SOME ASPECTS
Nina Mayer
; Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan", Zagreb, Croatia
Branka Restek Petrović
; Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan", Zagreb, Croatia; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Majda Grah
; Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan", Zagreb, Croatia
Vanja Lovretić
; Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan", Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Filipčić
; Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan", Zagreb, Croatia; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia; School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Background: Treatment of early phase of psychosis is important not only for overcoming the acute symptoms but also for the
later treatment and attitude towards the illness. Psychotherapeutic approach is an integrative part of this treatment. In Psychiatric hospital "Sveti Ivan" in Zagreb, Croatia both psychotherapeutic and sociotherapeutic methods are used on the inpatient unit for young people with psychosis along with medications. The aim of this work is to present the work on the psychotherapeutic inpatient unit and to investigate whether during the hospitalisation of individuals with first psychotic episode changes occur in attitudes towards medications, quality of life, insight and self-esteem.
Subjects and methods: 37 individuals with first psychotic episode (20 men, 17 women) completed the following battery of
questionnaires upon hospital admission and before discharge: Drug attitude inventory (DAI-10), The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL), Insight scale and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale.
Results: Before being discharged from hospital, patients assessed their quality of life as significantly improved over time
(p=0.000), especially concerning their physical health (p=0.004), psychological health (p=0.004), and satisfaction with their
environment (p=0.001). Also, positive trends were observed in attitudes towards drugs and self-esteem. No changes were shown regarding patients´ insight.
Conclusions: The findings are encouraging: during treatment on psychotherapeutic inpatient unit, significant improvement in
quality of life was observed, as well as positive trends in self-esteem and attitudes towards medications.
Keywords
psychosis; inpatient psychotherapy; early intervention
Hrčak ID:
263737
URI
Publication date:
15.6.2017.
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