2 THE IMPROVEMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS UNDER POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION
Authors: Cao Jianbin 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Background
Schizophrenia, as a serious mental disorder, has a profound impact on the psychological health and social functioning of patients. Traditional medication treatment ignores the psychological health of patients and affects their comprehensive recovery. In recent years, the application of positive psychology theory in mental health education has gradually received attention. Related studies have shown that interventions guided by positive psychology theory can effectively enhance the happiness and motivation of patients with schizophrenia, improve their health status, and reduce the incidence of depression and disease recurrence. Therefore, the study mainly explored the application effect of positive psychology health education in the rehabilitation nursing of patients with schizophrenia.

Methods
The study selected 100 schizophrenia patients recruited from a certain hospital from January 2023 to June 2023 as research subjects, and divided them into an experimental group and a control group, with 50 cases in each group. The control group only received conventional psychiatric medication treatment, while the experimental group added 2 sessions of positive psychology education courses per week on top of the control group, with each session lasting 45 minutes. Among them, psychological therapy courses mainly include positive emotions, personal strengths and virtues, interpersonal relationships, happiness and life satisfaction, meaning and goals, etc. The treatment period is 14 weeks, and the life satisfaction scale, Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS), and Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) are used as evaluation criteria before and after treatment.

Results
The experimental results can be obtained from the life satisfaction, SAPS, and SANS scale scores of schizophrenia patients in the experimental and control groups before and after a 14-week intervention treatment. The experimental group using positive psychology education curriculum therapy showed significant improvements in life satisfaction, SAPS, and SANS scale scores, and the improvement effect was significantly better than that of the control group. Among them, in the early stage of intervention, the life satisfaction scale score of the experimental group was 62.89 ± 5.87 points, which increased to 69.37 ± 2.11 points after intervention, and there was a statistical difference between the two (P&lt;0.05). At the same time, the SAPS score of the experimental group was significantly reduced before and after intervention, with a certain statistical significance (P&lt;0.05), while the SANS score was significantly improved, with statistical differences (P&lt;0.05). In addition, in the inter group comparison, the experimental group showed certain optimization effects on the scores of various scales after intervention compared to the control group.

Discussion
The research results indicate that through the intervention of positive psychology education courses, the symptoms of schizophrenia patients have been effectively controlled, and the scores of various aspects of quality of life have been significantly improved. Compared to traditional medication treatment methods, positive psychology education courses can not only improve treatment effectiveness, but also promote patients’ social function recovery, which has important practical significance for improving patients’ quality of life.