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The effect of psychosocial rehabilitation treatment on social adjustment and social anxiety in individuals with schizophrenia and mood disorders

THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION TREATMENT ON THE ADAPTATION AND SOCIAL ANXIETY OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA AND AFFECTIVE DISORDERS.

After six months of psychosocial rehabilitation, no statistically significant changes were found in social adjustment and social anxiety scale scores; however, more than half of the participants had reengaged in family life.

The aim was to determine whether six months of psychosocial rehabilitation was associated with changes in social adjustment and social anxiety scores in individuals with schizophrenia and mood disorders. This observational, descriptive, prospective study was conducted in 2025 at AEQUS, a psychosocial rehabilitation center in Monterrey, Mexico. Participants completed the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS), the Social Adaptation Self-Evaluation Scale (SASS), and a study-specific sociodemographic questionnaire at the start of treatment and six months later. After normality was confirmed using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, mean scores were compared using Student’s t-test, with statistical significance set at p<0.05. A total of 21 participants were included, with a mean age of 33.7 years; 15 (71.4%) were men and 6 (28.6%) were women. Of the participants, 81% had schizophrenia, 9.5% had major depressive disorder, and 9.5% had bipolar disorder. At the second assessment, a moderate-to-strong negative correlation was found between age and social functioning scores measured by the SASS (ρ = -0.648, p = 0.012). No statistically significant differences in SASS or LSAS scores were found between baseline and the sixth month. At follow-up, more than half of the participants had reengaged in family life, and one-third were employed. The authors noted that, despite the lack of statistical significance, these functional outcomes suggest that psychosocial rehabilitation may contribute to social reintegration and quality of life, while acknowledging that the study was limited by its small sample size and lack of a control group.

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