A STATE HOSPITAL TOTAL PUSH PROGRAM FOR REGRESSED SCHIZOPHRENICS.

The article focuses on a state hospital total push program for regressed schizophrenics. A pool of 200 patients was selected from continued treatment wards. The personnel selecting these patients were head nurses, psychiatric aides, supervisors, and ward physicians. Thirty male and thirty female patients were selected from this group to be the experimental group. They were selected by taking every third patient until the desired N was achieved. Twenty of these were placed on the program first for a period of six months. The other forty were put on after the first six month period had been completed. It was found that "total push" is of benefit to a goodly number of regressed schizophrenics.