Exercise Prescription for Schizophrenia Patients

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。