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KMID : 0897520010060020130
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2001 Volume.6 No. 2 p.130 ~ p.138
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3 Years Follow-Up Study of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Outcomes of Community Mental Health Centers
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Hwang Tae-Yeon
Park Chan-Il
Lee Jong-Gook
Ko Young
Lee Myung-Soo
Lee Woo-Kyung
Lee Won-Hye
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Abstract
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Community mental health centers(CMHCs) have provided patients with mental illness and their families with comprehensive psychosocial rehabilitation programs and contributed to community integration and improvement of quality of life of the patients. However, there have been few studies on the effectiveness of and patients’ satisfaction to the programs. This study was performed to measure the outcomes of psychosocial rehabilitation programs of CMHCs through 3 year’s follow-up. At the baseline, The Korean version of Toolkit for measuring psychosocial rehabilitation outcomes and The Korean Version of Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale(BASIS-32) were administered to 169 subjects who were members of 6 CMHCs and 1 psychiatric rehabilitation center in Seoul City and Kyonggi province. 128 subjects were followed out of 169 subjects. Authors re-evaluated the same subjects 29 months after the baseline study using same measures. Male members were 78(60.9%) and females were 50(39.1%). Most of them are under diagnosis of schizophrenia(82.8%) or schizoaffective disorder(7.9%). The mean age was 38.4yr., mean age of onset was 24yr., mean age of first hospitalization was 26yr. Number of hospitalization was 0.35, length of stay at the inpatient unit was 1.9 months, and community tenure was 27.8 months during the 29 months’ period of study. Residences were diversified and independent living was increased. Jobs were also diversified and independent competitive employment wes increased. Total monthly income including labor income and total monthly expenditure were increased. Member survey showed improvement of program satisfaction and improved self-esteem. BASIS-32 showed that the members had more difficulties in the areas of symptoms but reported improvement of daily functioning compared with the baseline. These outcomes tells psychosocial rehabilitation programs of the CMHCs increased the quality of life, functioning, and autonomy of the chronic mentally ill patients in the community that the national mental health policy should be directed to establishment of more CMHCs. In the future, there must be periodic monitoring of the psychosocial rehabilitation program through comprehensive outcome measures.
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KEYWORD
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Community mental health center, Psychosocial rehabilitation outcomes, Program satisfaction, Quality of life
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