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  • Title: [Longer-term effects of inpatient vocational and ergotherapeutic measures on the vocational integration of patients with schizophrenia].
    Author: Bayer W, Köster M, Salize HJ, Höhl W, Machleidt W, Wiedl KH, Buchkremer G, Längle G.
    Journal: Psychiatr Prax; 2008 May; 35(4):170-3; discussion 173-4. PubMed ID: 17768687.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: Unemployment rates are high in people with schizophrenia, so that considerable importance is attached to measures to improve their ability to work and their vocational integration. METHODS: In a study of the German Research Network on Schizophrenia the long-term effects of four-week vocational and ergotherapeutic measures on in-patients were investigated. The target criteria were the vocational integration, level of general functioning (Global Assessment of Functioning Scale) and psychopathology (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale). 227 patients were randomized and assigned either to a work-oriented vocational therapy group, or to a creativity-oriented ergotherapy group; 163 patients completed the study. Data was available for 89 patients at the last catamnesis point after two years. RESULTS: No differences were seen between the effects of the two forms of therapy on the development of vocational integration or on general functioning level and psychopathology after two years. The number of patients in regular work declined over this period. CONCLUSIONS: It is assumed from this that short-lasting vocational and ergotherapeutic measures do not have any long-term influence on the vocational integration of patients with schizophrenia.
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