| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 復健諮商研究所 === 103 === Introduction: This research explored the effectiveness of the intensive industrial program for psychiatric patients with chronic mental illness who reside at Tsao-tun Psychiatric Hospital operated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare Taiwan in Tsao-tun Taiwan. The researcher analyzed the impact of work training on productions, attention and admission into the sheltered workshop after completing the intensive industrial program.
Method: This study was designed as quasi-experimental, time series intervention. Using a purposive sampling procedure, 67 patients who were resident on the vocational rehabilitation wards during the period April to June 2014 were invited to join a program of vocational training under supervision of the occupational therapist. After informed consent was obtained, participants were empowered to choose to get into one of two groups. Thirty seven patients participated in the experimental group. Experimental group means the provision of about 1 hour of industrial therapy five times a week as work training activities. Thirty patients participated in the control group where industrial therapy treatment was provided as usual, for approximately 1 hour, one day per week.
Result: Results demonstrated that the production increased throughout the intensive industrial program. Initially, the mean production of the control group was higher than experimental group, but after 15 weeks of intensive industrial therapy the experimental group caught up and surpassed the control group for the remaining 3 weeks. Results demonstrated that the intensive and repeated work training empowered patients with chronic psychiatric illness to enhance their productivity. Attention skills from pre-test to post-test were higher for the experimental group than the control group, however the process was not significant. The proportion of persons admitted into the sheltered work program from the experimental group (35.1%) was more than twice that of the control group (16.7%), however this did not reach statistical significance.
Conclusion and suggestion: The intensive industrial training program to alter participation in hospital based vocational training enhances the overall function of persons with chronic psychiatric illness who live in hospital settings. The study generated a number of suggestions for improving vocational outcomes for hospitalized consumers using intensive training supports.
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