A STUDY ON DAILY LIVING FUNCTIONS OF PSYCHIATRIC DAY-CARE USERS

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  • Saito Miyuki
    School of Nursing, Yamagata University Faculty Medicine

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  • 精神科通所者の生活機能についての検討
  • セイシンカツウショシャ ノ セイカツ キノウ ニ ツイテ ノ ケントウ

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Recently, the aims of rehabilitation for individuals with mental health problems have changed among clinical experts to allow the patient to live in society while using clinical services. Psychiatric day-care offers support to individuals with mental health problems, to facilitate life within society. This research aimed to reveal daily living functions among psychiatric day-care users. Subjects comprised 116 day-care users at a large-scale day-care facility attached to a hospital. Fourteen staff members used the Daily Living Function Rating Scale for People with Mental Health Problems and twice rated daily living functions for day-care users. The research period extended from September 2006 to February 2007. The second rating was performed 3 months after the first. Paired t-tests were used to compare daily living function, activity and participation scores from the first and second ratings. Mean age of day-care users was 48.4±13.1 years, and mean period of day-care use was 61.0±48.8 months. Among the subjects, 98 users (84.5%) were diagnosed with schizophrenic disorder. Mean daily living function, activity and participation scores were 89.5±20.5, 44.5±8.0 and 45.0±14.7 from the first rating, and 90.4±21.6, 44.1±8.3 and 46.3±15.2 from the second rating, respectively. Participation scores were higher in the second rating than in the first. Furthermore, day-care users for whom period of day-care use was >2 years also displayed increased participation scores from the second rating compared to the first research. Psychiatric day-care thus appears to increase the curiosity and interests of day-care users.

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