Yan Qiao
Hospital of Military Economic College | China
Title: Effect and health economics evaluation of community comprehensive rehabilitation on chronic Schizophrenics
Biography
Biography: Yan Qiao
Abstract
Statement of the problem: Severe psychosis, such as schizophrenia, because of its characteristics of long treatment cycle, easy to relapse and high disability rate, has become one of the diseases that consumes the most medical resources in china. The related research shows that psychosis ranked first in the overall burden of disease in china. The purpose of this study is to explore a community comprehensive rehabilitation model of mental illness, which can adapt to the economic level and health policy of China and can be popularized and applied.
Objective: To explore the effect of community comprehensive rehabilitation on chronic schizophrenia and evaluate the health economics value.
Methods: 90 patients with chronic schizophrenia were treated with community comprehensive rehabilitation for 1 years, and were followed up for 1 year. Other 90 patients with chronic schizophrenia were selected as control group and were observed with clinical efficacy and cost.
Results: Compared with the control group, the social function, treatment compliance, disease stable rate, family burden, life satisfaction, symptom assessment, hospitalization in the rehabilitation group were significantly better ((P<0.01), and the total cost in the 2 years was significantly reduced, mainly reflected in the cost of hospitalization, drug maintenance treatment, downtime losses of caregivers, public prevention and treatment (P<0.01).
Conclusion & Significance: Community comprehensive rehabilitation can improve the prognosis of patients with chronic schizophrenia and reduce the cost.