The effects of auditory hallucination symptom management programme for people with schizophrenia: a quasi-experimental design.

Aim: To examine the effectiveness of an auditory hallucinatory symptom management programme in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

Background: Thirty per cent of chronic schizophrenia patients are still disturbed by hallucinations, which influence their psychological and social well-being, even when they take medication regularly.

Method: Fifty-eight people experiencing schizophrenia with auditory hallucinations from psychiatric inpatient rehabilitation wards in northern Taiwan participated in the study, with 29 in the experimental group and 29 in the control group.