Clinical and cost-effectiveness of nurse-led cognitive behavioral group therapy for recovery of self-esteem among individuals with mental disorders: A single-group pre-post study.

Aim: To investigate whether the addition of a nurse-led cognitive behavioral group therapy for recovery of self-esteem (CBGTRS) program to usual care for individuals with mental disorders can improve clinical outcomes and reduce direct medical costs.

Methods: This study employed single-group pre-post design, and recruited 51 community-dwelling individuals with mental disorders. Participants received 12 weekly CBGTRS sessions by a nurse in addition to usual care.

Effect of cognitive behavioral group therapy for recovery of self-esteem on community-living individuals with mental illness: Non-randomized controlled trial.

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine over a 12-month post-intervention period whether the participation of community-living individuals with mental illness in cognitive behavioral group therapy for recovery of self-esteem (CBGTRS) resulted in improved outcomes.

Methods: This was a non-randomized controlled trial. The participants were persons with mental illness who resided in communities in the Chugoku region of Japan.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Psychiatric Nursing in Japan.

Psychiatric nurses have played a significant role in disseminating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in Western countries; however, in Japan, the application, practice, efficiency, and quality control of CBT in the psychiatric nursing field are unclear. This study conducted a literature review to assess the current status of CBT practice and research in psychiatric nursing in Japan. Three English databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO) and two Japanese databases (Ichushi-Web and CiNii) were searched with predetermined keywords.

Nurse-led cognitive-behavioral group therapy for recovery of self-esteem in patients with mental disorders: A pilot study.

Aim: To design a program targeting recovery of self-esteem in patients with mental disorders, and to clarify the changes after the program to determine its effectiveness.

Methods: This study employed a one group pre- and post design, which comprised baseline, post-intervention, and 3 month follow-up phases, and recruited 41 Japanese patients with mental disorders living in the community. The authors administered the nurse-led group cognitive-behavioral therapy program for the recovery of self-esteem, which comprised 12 sessions, to the participants.

The effects measurement of hand massage by the autonomic activity and psychological indicators.

This study examined the effects of hand massage on autonomic activity, anxiety, relaxation and sense of affinity by performing it to healthy people before applying the technic in actual clinical practice. Findings were showed below: 1) the significant increase in the pNN50 and the significant decrease in the heart rate meant the intervention of massage increased the autonomic nervous activity, improved the parasympathetic nerve activity and reduced the sympathetic nerve activity. This means the subjects were considered to be in a state of relaxation.

The relationship between psychological comfort space and self-esteem in people with mental disorders.

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate a causal model of the sense of having psychological comfortable space that is call 'ibasho' in Japanese and self-esteem in people with mental disorders who had difficulty in social activities. The subjects were 248 schizophrenia patients who were living in the community and receiving day care treatment. Data were collected from December 2007 to April 2009 using the Scale for the Sense of ibasho for persons with mentally ill (SSI) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), and analyzed for cross-validation of construct validity by conducting covariance structure analysis.

[Factors affecting WHOQOL-26 in community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia].

Objective: Schizophrenic patients' quality of life (QOL) has become increasingly important due to shift of mental health care from hospitals to communities. This paper describes a longitudinal study conducted to clarify relationships among the QOL, self-esteem, depressive mood, and uncooperativeness of schizophrenic patients identified in the authors' previous crosssectional study.

Methods: Subjects were 61 schizophrenic patients attending day care at mental hospitals.

Quality of life of schizophrenic patients living in the community: the relationships with personal characteristics, objective indicators and self-esteem.

The relationship of personal characteristics, objective indicators, and self-esteem to quality of life (QOL) was investigated cross-sectionally in 73 Japanese schizophrenic patients, and the question of how objective conditions affect subjective evaluation was evaluated. Depressive mood and uncooperativeness were negatively correlated with self-esteem, and self-esteem was positively correlated with QOL. Self-esteem was considered to directly affect QOL, and depressive mood and uncooperativeness to affect QOL via self-esteem.

[Quality of life and schizophrenia. A review of the literature].

The aim of this paper was to clarify the concept of quality of life (QOL) and to identify appropriate goals for future studies on the QOL of patients with schizophrenia, by historically review of the literature. First, the concept of QOL was discussed. With the recent move to attach more importance to outcomes in health services, more attention has been paid to QOL as an indicator of patients' perceived outcomes, and many studies on QOL have been published since 1990.