Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop a clinical findings assessment table for physically disabled schizophrenic patients from the viewpoint of physical therapists, which enables the physical therapists to evaluate the psychosis easily and accurately.
The subjects were physically disabled schizophrenic patients undergoing physical therapy at Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital. There were a total of 129 patients, consisting of 58 males (49.8 ± 13.4 years old, mean ± SD), and 71 females (52.7 ± 15.9 years old).
We developed an original psychosis scale consisting of 38 items rated on a four-point scale. The model was prepared by exploratory factor analysis of 11 items, after confirming their content validity. It was improved using the modification index obtained by comfirmatory factor analysis (structural equation modeling). As a result, a second-order latent variable model consisting of eight items was adopted.
We believe that the use of this clinical findings assessment table, which consists of eight items, is beneficial for evaluation of the severity of psychosis in physically disabled schizophrenic patients from the viewpoint of physical therapists.
