Abstract: Objective To investigate the effect of community-based rehabilitation on psychotic patients.Methods84 severe psychotic patients were treated with multidisciplinary community-based rehabilitation including specific drugs, psychological treatment, medical workers, family care, and etc. The implementation rate of taking medicine, improvement rate of disease, working ability of the patients before and after treatment were compared.ResultsAfter treatment, the implementation rate of taking medicine increased from 33.33% to 89.29% ( P<0.01), improvement rate of disease increased from 19.05% to 80.95% ( P<0.01), the working ability increased from 10.71% to 30.95% ( P<0.01), blocked rate decreased from 15.48% to 5.95%, the rate of causing trouble decreased from 2.38% to 0.ConclusionThe community-based rehabilitation can significantly improve the health status and quality of life for the psychotic patients and decrease the accident rate.

Key words: psychopathy, community control, rehabilitation