44 THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF VISUALLY COMMUNICATING DIVERSE REPRESENTATIONS ON PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
Authors: Luo Jing 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background
Mental illness is a disorder of brain function and a disease with serious psychological disorders. Usually, patients’ cognition, emotion, will and action behavior are manifested as continuous abnormalities. For psychiatric patients, seeking treatment and intervention can promote their recovery and social function recovery. At present, a variety of psychological, artistic and social intervention therapy is gradually used as a supplement or even substitute for drugs, and its clinical effect has been widely confirmed. Among them, the diversified expression of visual communication refers to the process of conveying information and emotions through various expressions such as color, graphics, fonts, layout and multimedia elements, which is expected to profoundly affect people’s emotional expression and perception. This study introduces it into the field of psychological intervention for psychiatric patients and explores its emotional impact on patients.

Methods
40 patients who met the diagnostic criteria of psychosis were divided into experimental group and control group according to the principle of uniform and random, and the intervention period was set for 6 months. The control group received routine nursing treatment and did not participate in any form of intervention activities, while the experimental group received visual communication diversified expression intervention twice a week during the intervention cycle, and communicated with the visual communication designer through dynamic and interactive design with various elements. The scale was tested before intervention and at 2, 4 and 6 months after intervention. The measurement scales included Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and self-rating anxiety scale (self-rating Anxiety Scale). SAS, self-rating depression scale (SDS), and Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS).

Results
The comparison results of DERS scale of different subjects before and after intervention are shown in Figure 1. As can be seen from Figure 1, there was no statistical difference in DERS scores between the two groups before intervention (P&gt;0.05), and the subsequent experimental analysis was scientific and effective. After one month of intervention, DERS scores of the experimental group began to decline, and there was a statistical difference compared with the control group (P&lt;0.05). When the intervention time reached 4 months, there was a statistically significant difference between the experimental group and the control group (P&lt;0.01). After the intervention, the experimental group’s DERS score decreased from 68.167 to 48.496. In addition, the scores of SAS and SDS in both groups decreased, but the scores in the experimental group were lower than those in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P&lt;0.05). Finally, the total score of EIS, emotional feeling score and ability to understand emotions of oneself or others in the experimental group were significantly higher than those in the control group, with statistical significance (P&lt;0.05).

Discussion
As a new psychological intervention method, visual communication diversified expression aims to help mental patients improve their understanding ability, cognitive level and regulate emotions through rich visual elements and dynamic effects. The results show that visual communication has a positive impact on the emotions of patients with psychosis, which can not only improve the emotional control of patients, but also inhibit the occurrence of depression and anxiety, so as to achieve the recovery of patients’ various functions and abilities.