Psychosocial rehabilitation training in the treatment of schizophrenia outpatients: A randomized, psychosocial rehabilitation training–and monomedication-controlled study

Objective: this study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of psychosocial rehabilitation intervention on schizophrenia. methodology: one hundred forty schizophrenia outpatients in remission stage were randomized to either an antipsychotic monomedication (control group) or an antipsychotic monomedication plus a psychosocial rehabitation training (trial group). positive and negative syndrome scale (panss), disability screening schedule (sdss) were performed longitudinally from baseline to month 18 to evaluate the efficacy. results: significant difference in relapse rate between the control group (42.9%) and the trial group (18.6%) was found at month 18. in patients who didn’t relapse, the trial group showed significantly lower panss and sdss score (p < 0.05) than did the control group after treatment. conclusion: psychosocial rehabilitation intervention could produce a better outcome in terms of reducing relapse and improving the social functioning in schizophrenia.