Effects of a Short Emotional Management Program on Inpatients with Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study

Kyung-Hwan Park, Eun-Sook Park, Sung-Mi Jo, Mi-Hui Seo, Young-Ok Song and Sun-Joo Jang
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Kyung-Hwan Park: National Center for Mental Health, 127, Yongmasan-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 04933, Korea
Eun-Sook Park: National Center for Mental Health, 127, Yongmasan-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 04933, Korea
Sung-Mi Jo: National Center for Mental Health, 127, Yongmasan-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 04933, Korea
Mi-Hui Seo: National Center for Mental Health, 127, Yongmasan-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 04933, Korea
Young-Ok Song: National Center for Mental Health, 127, Yongmasan-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 04933, Korea
Sun-Joo Jang: Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: The prevalence of schizophrenia is gradually increasing worldwide. Many patients with schizophrenia have a diminished ability to empathize and to detect their own emotions or those of others, deteriorating their social functioning and their quality of life. Nonetheless, emotional management training may improve patients’ emotion recognition, emotional expression, and negative symptoms. Developing and applying a short but effective program that reflects the current medical environment, in which hospital stays are ever-diminishing, is warranted. This one-group, pretest–posttest, quasi-experimental pilot study aimed to examine the effects of a short emotional management program (EMP-S) on 17 patients with chronic schizophrenia. Participants were patients hospitalized in the National Center for Mental Health in Korea. After the completion of a twice-a-week, eight-session, four-week long EMP-S, participants showed improvements in emotion recognition, emotional expression, and negative symptoms. Our results suggest the applicability and potential effectiveness of the EMP-S, which takes the length of psychiatric hospital stay and the inpatient environment into consideration. To minimize any barriers to social functioning in the post-discharge lives of inpatients with chronic schizophrenia and enhance their social cognition—by improving their emotion recognition, emotional expression, and negative symptoms—we suggest the periodical administration of this EMP-S to these inpatients.

Keywords: schizophrenia; emotion; inpatient; negative symptom; nursing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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