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Reality orientation therapy — a controlled trial
Author(s) -
Wallis G. G.,
Baldwin M.,
Higginbotham P.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1983.tb01556.x
Subject(s) - orientation (vector space) , psychology , occupational therapy , reality therapy , inclusion (mineral) , physical therapy , outcome (game theory) , drop out , randomized controlled trial , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , psychiatry , surgery , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , mathematical economics , economics , demographic economics
Sixty long‐stay patients who were demented or withdrawn or both were randomly allocated to reality orientation or diversional occupational therapy and were assessed blind on two scales. Owing to a high drop‐out rate only 19 organic and 19 functional patients satisfied reasonable criteria for inclusion in the analyses. Those treated by reality orientation therapy fared better than the controls but not significantly so. Initial test scores were no guide to outcome. The results suggested that both organic and functional patients benefited cognitively, but hardly at all behaviourally, from both types of treatment.