Hallucination Management Model for Schizophrenic Patients

Abstract

  INTRODUCTION: Hallucinations are a phenomenon that is mostly found in schizophrenic patients.  AIM: The study aim to identify the effect of the hallucination management model on the severity and distress of schizophrenic patients.  METHOD: The study used Quasi-experimental method with 98 respondents. Sampling was done by consecutive sampling. Data was collected between June and July 2016. All of the subjects completed a questionnaire Psychotic Syndrome Rating Scale (PSYRAT). The questionnaire had been tested validity and realibility with  range of r count between 0.442-0.720 and Cronbach’s Alpha =0.891.    RESULT: The result of study showed that hallucination management model reduced severity of symptoms and distress (p-value 0.001, p<0.05). Hallucinations and distress of patients in the intervention group decreased significantly (p-value 0.00, p<0.05).   CONCLUSIONS: hallucination management model is very important to patients. It is necessary to hallucination management model implemented for schizophrenia.