Deborah E Tyndall, Debra A Kosko, Kelly M Forbis, Wendy B Sullivan
Mutual Benefits of a Service-Learning Community-Academic Partnership
The Journal of nursing education
study aimed examine effect emotion recognition expression program erep alexithymia emotion expression skills positive negative symptoms patients schizophrenia study nonrandomized quasiexperimental design including pretest posttest followup test conducted 36 patients schizophrenia n 18 intervention group n 18 control group regularly visited community mental health center cmhc trkiye participated voluntarily erep applied intervention group eight weeks personal information form emotion expression scale ees toronto alexithymia scale tas positive negative syndrome scale panss applied participants pretest posttest followup test followup test applied one month end sessions number percentage chisquare test repeated measures analysis variance used data evaluation total alexithymia score significant difference group interaction time intervention group compared control group terms total alexithymia score posttest followup test mean scores intervention group lower control group p 005 2 0122 significant timegroup interaction positive emotion subscale ees p 005 2 0121 findings study indicated erep positive effect alexithymia scores patients schizophrenia found erep used study contributed reduction alexithymia levels patients schizophrenia