Effectiveness of Resilience Support for Community-Dwelling Patients With Schizophrenia by Visiting Nurses

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of resilience support for community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia by visiting nurses.

Methods: We conducted a self-administered questionnaire survey before and 2 and 3 months after the initiation of intervention. The patients were divided into an intervention group using home-visit nursing facility and daycare services (23: regular support provided in psychiatric home-visit nursing + resilience support) and a control group (21: regular support only).

Results: The intervention group showed improvement in terms of attitudes toward treatment, subjective well-being, and disease and deterioration prevention as consequences of resilience support for people with mental disorders, and the health status was markedly improved at 2 and 3 months after the initiation of intervention than before it.

Conclusion: Resilience support by visiting nurses may be effective in helping community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia by improving attitudes (e.g. readiness, awareness) toward treatment, subjective well-being, self-efficacy within the community, and mental function.