%0 Journal Article %A Yasrebi, Kamran %A Jazayeri, Ali Reza %A Pourshahbaz, Abbas %A Dolatshahi, Behrouz %T The Effectiveness of Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Reducing Negative Symptoms and Improving Social Skills of Chronic Schizophrenia Patients %J Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology %V 14 %N 4 %U http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-605-en.html %R %D 2009 %K schizophrenia; psychosocial; rehabilitation, %X AbstractObjectives: This study examined the effectiveness of psychosocial rehabilitation in reducing negative symptoms and improving social skills in chronic schizophrenia patients. Method: In this experiment 30 subjects were selected as the experimental group and 30 subjects were selected as the control group. The subjects were matched, and examined in a quasi-experimental study. To examine negative symptoms and social skills, the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) and Social Skills Checklist were used respectively. The applied interventions (psycho-social rehabilitation) were evaluated using pretest and post-test and a three months follow-up. Results: After three months of rehabilitation, the experimental group demonstrated a significant decrease (P %> http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-605-en.pdf %P 363-370 %& 363 %! The Effectiveness of Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Reducing Negative Symptoms and Improving Social Skills of Chronic Schizophrenia Patients %9 Original Research %L A-10-1-315 %+ %G eng %@ 1735-4315 %[ 2009