期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：7
页码：5024
DOI：10.15680/IJIRSET.2015.0407207
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Schizophrenia is a major health problem in the world today. The present study is an attempt to assess theeffect of recreational therapy on achieving the wellness among the schizophrenic patients. The objective of the studywere to assess the pre interventional level of wellness among schizophrenic patients, to evaluate the effect ofrecreational therapy on level of wellness and to associate pre interventional level of wellness score with selected sociodemographicvariables. The Conceptual frame work for the present study was based on system theory modified byLudwig von bertalanffy. The study was experimental in nature which was carried out in a group of 50 schizophrenicpatients admitted in Sree Balaji Medical College by simple random samplingand a structured observational checklistwhich was developed after extensive review of literature.Feasibility was established by administering the tool on sixschizophrenic patients. The tool was found reliable(r=0.90) .data collected was analysed by using descriptive andinferential statistics. Results of the study revealed that level of wellness of schizophrenic patients is poor beforeadministration of recreational therapy. The mean post test wellness score 13.00 was significantly higher than the meanpre test score 20.84. The t value to evaluate the effectiveness of recreation therapy was found to be highlysignificant(6.91). There is no significant relationship of wellness score with selected demographic variable by chisquare.Therefore need for wellness among schizophrenic patients is highly recognized. The present study concludesthat recreational therapy was found to be effective in improving the level of wellness among schizophrenic patients.
关键词：Recreational therapy; effect;wellness and schizophrenic patients
