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A Sporting Rehabilitation Program Designed with Users with Severe Mental Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

D. Garino ,
D. Celona ,
F. Bertossi ,
G. Tirone ,
C. Bertossi ,
A. Pizzolato ,
V. Botter ,
G.D. Papanti Pellettier ,
F. Sandri  and
E. Pascolo-Fabrici
D. Garino
Affiliation:
Mental Health Department CHMC Maddalena, Università di Udine, Trieste, Italy
D. Celona
Affiliation:
Mental Health Department CHMC Maddalena, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
F. Bertossi
Affiliation:
Mental Health Department CHMC Maddalena, ASS1 “Triestina”, Trieste, Italy
G. Tirone
Affiliation:
Mental Health Department CHMC Domio, ASS1 “Triestina”, Trieste, Italy
C. Bertossi
Affiliation:
Neurology Department, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
A. Pizzolato
Affiliation:
Mental Health Department CHMC Maddalena, ASS1 “Triestina”, Trieste, Italy
V. Botter
Affiliation:
Mental Health Department CHMC Maddalena, ASS1 “Triestina”, Trieste, Italy
G.D. Papanti Pellettier
Affiliation:
Mental Health Department CHMC Maddalena, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
F. Sandri
Affiliation:
University Psychiatric Clinic, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
E. Pascolo-Fabrici
Affiliation:
University Psychiatric Clinic, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Abstract

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Introduction

Sporting practice for psychotic patients have been demonstrated to be efficacious as a rehabilitation tool at various levels, improving social interaction, self esteem, body self consciousness, reduce anxiety and depression, reduce stigma, improve compliance, reduce admission rates, reduce aggressiveness, reduce family burden.

Since 1999 the Fuoric'entro Polisportiva was founded in Trieste, with the support of the Department of Metal Health, with the aim of influencing recovery at several levels.

Objectives

Evaluate the impact on participants' health.

Aims

Demonstrate the outcome of the rehabilitation program based upon the sporting activity.

Methods

The research is a descriptive, case-control study, led on 40 patients (20 cases and 20 controls) followed by the Trieste's Metal Health Department. We considered as items living situation, professional condition, gender and age, diagnosis, therapy and its compliance, admissions’ number and duration, main therapeutic interventions, following up a previous study on the same rehabilitation program.

Results

In the cases’ group there is a stable improvement of the professional and living conditions, compliance and a reduction of admissions’ number and duration.

Conclusions

A rehabilitation program based on sporting can improve coping abilities, psychopathological conditions, person's 'social functioning”, family burden.

Type
Article: 0869
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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