The Effect of Case Management by Advanced Practice Nurse on Relapse in Persons with Schizophrenia
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This quasi-experimental research with the posttest control groups design aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of case management on relapse in persons with schizophrenia. The subjects were 67 in-patients with relapse schizophrenia of a psychiatric institute. Thirty five subjects were randomized to an experimental group and thirty two subjects to a control group. The experimental group received case management by an advanced practice nurse (APN), while the control group received the usual nursing care for inpatients with a discharge plan. Research instruments were a case management process with 7 steps lasted for 4 weeks. The relapse was measured by The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) (conceptual disorganization, hallucinatory behavior and unusual thought content). Data were analyzed using Fisher’s exact test. Results: The findings revealed that there was no relapse in the experimental group at 4 weeks after discharge, whereas there were 4 relapse cases in the control group (Fisher’s Exact = 4.65, df = 1, p-value = .04). Results suggested that case management by Advance Practice Nurse (APN) could be an effective model to prevent relapse among schizophrenic patients.
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