ผลของโปรแกรมการเสริมสร้างพลังอำนาจต่อพฤติกรรมป้องกันการป่วยซ้ำของผู้ป่วยจิตเภท / โสรยา ศุภโรจนี = The effect of empowerment program on relapse preventive behaviors on schizophrenic patients / Soraya Suparochanee
The purposes of this quasi-experimental research were: to compare the relapse preventive behaviors in schizophrenic patients before and after received the empowerment program, and to compare the relapse preventive behaviors in schizophrenic patients who received the empowerment program and those who received regular caring activities. Forty schizophrenic patients receiving services in inpatient, Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry. Who met the inclusion criteria, were matched pair and then randomly assigned to experimental group and control group, 20 subjects in each group. The experimental group received the empowerment program developed by the researcher. The control group received regular caring activies. Research instruments were: 1) the empowerment program 2) relapse preventive behaviors. 3) source of power questionnaire. These instruments were validated for content validity by 5 professional experts. The Chronbach’s Alpha coefficients reliability of the two latter instrument was .83 and .88, respectively. The t-test was used in data analysis percentage, mean, standard deviation and t - test.
Major findings of this study were as follows: 1. The relapse preventive behaviors in schizophrenic patients who received the empowerment program was significantly higher than that before, at the .05 level. 2. The relapse preventive behaviors of schizophrenic patients who received the empowerment program was significantly higher than those who received regular caring, at the .05 level.