Exercise Prescription for Schizophrenia Patients

思覺失調症患者之運動處方

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder with barriers of thinking, perception and emotion. Most patients were unable to recognize what is real and degenerated of their social behavior functions. Physical activity/exercise had been proved its critical effects on reducing Schizophrenia symptoms in a safer way. It also provided patients a healthier life quality. However, few articles had mentioned and emphasized the effects of physical activity/exercise on Schizophrenia and offered relevant exercise prescription in Taiwan. This review article commenced with introduce of the symptoms and treatment of Schizophrenia followed by the effects of physical activity/exercise on Schizophrenia. Most important of all, exercise prescription and instructors’ special guideline were offered in the end of the review article.

思覺失調症是一種心理失常的疾病，患者在思考、知覺、情感等多方面出現障礙，其精神活動與現實有明顯的脫節，且大部分患者有明顯的社會功能不良或退化的現象。適當的運動已被證實可以安全有效減輕思覺失調症病患的症狀，進而增進患者的健康相關生活品質。然而國內少有文獻介紹思覺失調症身體活動/運動在預防及治療思覺失調症的效益，並為思覺失調症病患提供運動處方及特殊運動考量之建議。本文目的在於說明思覺失調症主要症狀與一般治療方式，進而探討身體活動/運動在預防及治療思覺失調症的效益，提供思覺失調症病患運動處方及其在運動特殊考量之建議。