title: Effect of Psychosocial Skills Training on Disease Symptoms, Insight, Internalized Stigmatization, and Social Functioning in Patients with Schizophrenia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was performed for the purpose of determining the effect of psychosocial skills training (PSST) on disease symptoms, insight, internalized stigmatization, and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia.
  
  
  METHODS
  One group pretest-posttest model.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was carried out with 25 outpatients who were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The PSST was given to three groups of eight to nine patients once a week in 24 sessions, each lasting 90-120 minutes for a period of 6 months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The program had significant results in schizophrenic patients in improving the level of symptoms, increasing the level of functioning, and coping with stigmatization.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The PSST program, adjuvant to pharmacological treatments, can be considered as a significant modality in daily practice due to its effect on improving symptoms, insight, and level of functioning and decreasing internalized stigmatization.
  PSST in patients with schizophrenia can contribute to the use of evidence-based education strategies in psychiatric nursing practice to improve coping skills with the disease.
authors.affiliation: Deparment of Nursing, Erzincan University School of Health, Erzincan, Turkey.
authors.forename: Arzu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yıldırım
authors.affiliation: Deparment of Nursing, Erzincan University School of Health, Erzincan, Turkey.
authors.forename: Rabia
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hacıhasanoğlu Aşılar
authors.affiliation: Sadi Konuk Educational and Research Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tuba Hale
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Camcıoğlu
authors.affiliation: Balıkesir Atatürk State Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic, Balıkesir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sezgin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erdiman
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health Sciences, Erzincan, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ebru
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Karaağaç
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D057545:Social Stigma; D013240:Stereotyping; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Disease symptoms; insight; internalized stigmatization; psychosocial skills training; social functioning