104 COGNITIVE FUNCTION RECOVERY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS BASED ON TELEVISION MEDIA-ASSISTED THERAPY
Authors: Zhang Shasha , Yasin* Megat Al Imran , Fang Ng Chwee 
Published: February 2025

Background

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that usually manifests cognitive dysfunction in the early stages. These disorders have a significant impact on patients’ daily life, work and social functioning. Cognitive dysfunction is one of the core symptoms of schizophrenia and is often difficult to completely alleviate with conventional drug treatment. In recent years, television media, as a popular multi-sensory stimulation method, has been gradually introduced into the field of mental health intervention. Through dual visual and auditory stimulation, television media helps enhance patients’ emotional resonance, cognitive abilities, and social adaptability. The study aims to evaluate the impact of television media-based auxiliary treatment on the recovery of cognitive functions in patients with schizophrenia, and to provide new ideas for future rehabilitation treatment of schizophrenia.

Methods

The study selected 60 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and randomly divided them into experimental groups and control groups, with 30 people in each group. The experimental group received TV media-assisted treatment for 8 weeks, 3 times a week, 60 minutes each time. The treatment content includes emotional expression, cognitive training, situation simulation, etc. By watching specially designed programs, the patient’s cognitive and emotional responses are stimulated, aiming to improve the patient’s social skills, emotional regulation and cognitive function. The control group continued to receive conventional medication and cognitive training. All patients were evaluated through the cognitive function scale and clinical symptom scale before and after the intervention. The evaluation content included the improvement of attention, memory, executive function and clinical symptoms to ensure the comprehensiveness and representativeness of various indicators.

Results

The experimental group showed significant improvements in all evaluation indicators after the intervention. Specifically, the attention score increased from 24.5 before intervention to 33.7 after intervention, with an improvement of 9.2 points (P &lt; 0.05). The memory score increased from 25.3 to 34.2, an improvement of 8.9 points (P &lt; 0.05). The executive function score increased from 26.1 to 35.1, an improvement of 9.0 points (P &lt; 0.05). The clinical symptom score dropped from 48.3 to 32.5, an improvement of 15.8 points (P &lt; 0.05). The improvement in the control group was smaller, with attention, memory, and clinical symptom scores improving by 1.6 points, and executive function improving by 1.4 points, both of which did not reach statistical significance. Patients in the experimental group showed more significant changes in symptom improvement, indicating that television media-assisted treatment has a better impact on cognitive function recovery and symptom relief than conventional treatment.

Discussion

Studies have shown that auxiliary treatment based on television media can significantly improve the cognitive functions of patients with schizophrenia, especially in attention, memory and executive functions. As a non-drug treatment method, TV media-assisted therapy has good clinical application potential and can provide strong auxiliary support for the treatment of schizophrenia. Future research could explore the effects of different television program types on the treatment of schizophrenia, as well as the possibility of combining television media with other nonpharmacological treatments to optimize rehabilitation programs.