TY - JOUR T1 - Home care effectiveness in preventing rehospitalization of acute schizophrenic patients TT - تاثیر مراقبت در منزل در پیشگیری از بستری مجدد مددجویان اسکیزوفرنیک حاد JF - IJNR JO - IJNR VL - 4 IS - 14 UR - http://ijnr.ir/article-1-161-en.html Y1 - 2009 SP - 59 EP - 66 KW - Schizophrenia KW - Nursing KW - Home care KW - Rehospitalization N2 - Introduction: of schizophrenic patients. The present study was design to determine the effectivenessof home care service in preventing rehospitalization of schizophrenic patients.Frequent rehospitalization is one of the complications in treatmentMethods: patients who were randomly allocated in two groups of intervention and control (20patients in each group). Home care services after discharge were delivered to theintervention group for three months. Control group received routine services includedappointing a date for next visit at psychiatric clinic. Both groups were followed up forsix months, after discharge. They were compared for their rate of rehospitalization.Chi square and Student's t-test were used to analyze the data.A semi-experimental study was conducted with 48 schizophrenicResults: follow up was %25 (6 of 24 patients) in control group and zero in interventional groupwhich was significantly different ((5 of 24 patients) in intervention group and %46 (11 of 24 patients) in control groupwhich was significantly different (The results revealed that rate of rehospitalization after three monthP M3 ER -