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P Vaitl

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PubMed1991

[The effectiveness of therapeutic horseback-riding in the treatment of chronic schizophrenic patients. Experimental results and clinical experiences].

After describing horse-riding as a facility in managing mentally ill patients, a program for chronic schizophrenic in-patients is presented. Clinical experience with this program and also results of a controlled study are reported. The therapeutic value and slope for horse-riding are discussed in relation to different diagnoses.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1989

[Full inpatient versus partial inpatient psychiatric after-care--a comparative retrospective study].

In a retrospective study 80 inpatients (Sociotherapy, Therapeutic Community) were compared to 160 outpatients (80 patient Day Clinic, 80 patients Night Clinic). With a mean treatment duration of 4-5 1/2 month a significant decrease was found for each group in the frequency and duration of further hospital admissions after end of therapy. Day and Night Clinic patients tending to a better outcome than the inpatients. Advantages of the Day and Night Clinic are seen e.g. in a higher degree of acceptance by patients and family doctors, disadvantages in the increased rate of suicide found in our sample.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

[Inpatient rehabilitation of chronic schizophrenic patients with a behavior therapy token reinforcement program].

The efficacy of a token economy system was assessed in a study involving 76 chronic schizophrenics who were inpatients during a treatment period of four years. The interrelations between therapeutic success on the one hand, and socio-economic as well as course of disease-related factors on the other were studied, including psychopathology and the efficacy of token economy.

Adult↗
PubMed1986

[Evaluation of the 11-year existence of an ambulatory residential group].

The authors evaluated in a retrospective study the sociodemographic and sickness course specific data of 48 patients who had been discharged from inpatient psychiatric treatment to an outpatient residential community. Whereas in 50% of the patients after an average time in the community of 1 1/2 years it is usually possible for them to move into a home of their own, provided their mental condition has continued to stabilise, the other half of the patients have to be readmitted to the psychiatric hospital as inpatients, thus breaking off their ties to the residential community. Relevant criteria of prognosis are, in consideration of the medium-term rehabilitation success in the residential community, the duration and number of times of previous psychiatric hospitalisations and the age of the patient when the disease became manifest for the first time. No prognosis of rehabilitation success is possible on the basis of duration of stay in the residential community, previous professional activity, age and psychiatric diagnosis (endogenous psychoses versus personality disturbances and other syndromes).

Adult↗
PubMed1985

[Cognitive disorders in schizophrenic patients. A controlled study].

In a controlled study, the cognitive functions measured by different association tests in a group of 40 schizophrenic inpatients (ICD 295.1+.3+.6) were compared to those of a control group that was matched according to age, sex and IQ. The results indicate that the basic cognitive functions of schizophrenic patients do not differ significantly from those of a control group in the lower-order tasks. In more complex and higher-order tasks, however, schizophrenic patients show a tendency to prefer less obvious associations (overinclusion) and to reject conventional associations (overexclusion). The results are discussed in the context of current literature as a lack of the cognitive organizing principle and its effects on rehabilitation, creativity and art in schizophrenic patients.

Adult↗