Evaluation Research of Close up to the House, Close up to the Heart, Care for Schizophrenia Patients Project in Contracted Unit of Primary Care Pathumrat Hospital

Abstract

Purposes : To assess a context, inputs, processes, and outputs to close up to the house, close up to the heart, Care for Schizophrenia patientsProject in Contracted Unit of Primary Care Pathumrat Hospital                          Study design : Evaluation research; summative evaluation

Materials and Methods : 16 of target group were a committee’s project and 55 of relatives or care givers which were selected by purposive sampling. Data were collected using opinion questionnaires. satisfaction assessment and mental behavior assessment. The data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.

Main findings : Summative evaluation of project in context, in terms of inputs and process Overall, it was at the highest level (µ= 4.53, = 0.40; µ= 3.67, = 0.55; µ= 4.30, = 0.48), respectively, and the assessment results passed all criteria. As for productivity, it was found that a service recipients or their relatives were satisfied with the project as a whole at a high level (µ= 4.46, = 0.08). The overall opinion of the project was at a very high level (µ= 4.59, = 0.67). ), and 43 of  patients had mild psychosis (≤36 points) (78.20%).

Conclusion and recommendations :The results of this project result in service recipients or relatives benefiting from the project. Therefore, relevant agencies should bring  this project to solve problems in areas with similar contexts.And this project may be applied to chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes or hypertension clinic.