A Study on the Pathological Syndromes and the Insights of the Patients in the Community Mental Health Centers

An, Hyo Ja; Kim, Hyeon Mi

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study is a descriptive research in which the pathological syndromes of the schizophrenic patients in the community mental health centers, the degrees of the insights, and the correlations between them were examined. METHOD: The subjects included 114 SPR pt. people who were enrolled in community mental health centers located in D City. The research was conducted during the period from Aug. 1st, 2002 to Jul. 30th, 2004. The instruments were PANSS developed by Kay(1987) and SUMD developed by Amador(1993).
RESULTS
Among the pathological syndromes, positives ones were 12.64+/-3.80 on the average, negative ones were 32.00+/- 5.36, and general pathological syndromes were 30.50+/-6.24. In the evaluation of the insights, the mean score was 11.81+/-5.09. There were some significant correlations between positive syndromes and general pathological ones (r=.572, p=.000), and negative syndromes and general pathological ones(r=.262, p=.029), while there was no significant correlation between the insights and the sub-measures of general pathological syndromes.
CONCLUSION
Therefore, the schizophrenic patients taking advantage of the community mental health centers have more negative syndromes than those in hospitalized, and rehabilitation programs are needed to help them continuously. And the further study of the correlations between the pathological syndromes and the degrees of the insights are required, and still, it should be analyzed what effects the insight acquirement brings about to the improvements of the pathological syndromes after the application of the insight-oriented programs.