救急入院病棟における統合失調症患者の生理機能変化と作業療法—睡眠時間，体温，脈拍数，排便回数，排尿回数から

Physiological changes in an acute patient with schizophrenia at an acute psychiatric care ward and occupational therapy : Period of sleep, body temperature, heart rate, number of bowel movements and urination

要旨：この論文の目的は，救急入院病棟の急性期統合失調症患者12名の生理的機能の変化と作業療法について報告することである．われわれは，カルテより患者の入院日から退院日の睡眠総時間，体温，脈拍数，排便・排尿回数について調査した．その結果，作業療法の開始時には患者の生理的機能はかなり落ち着き，退院に向けてそれらの機能がより安定していった．これらのことは，急性期統合失調症患者においては作業療法プログラムの開始時に生理的な安定が必要で，さらに作業療法は患者の生理的安定を促進させるものと思われる．

　The purpose of this paper is to explain changes in physiological functions of 12 patients with schizophrenia at an acute psychiatric care ward and accompanying occupational therapy. Using clinical records we recorded the period of sleep, body temperature, heart rate, number of bowel movements and urination of the patients during the length of their hospital stay. Physiological functions were stable at the beginning of the day of occupational therapy and they had since more until the end of the hospital stay. These results suggest that occupation therapy programs start at stable condition and advance their physiological functions more in acute schizophrenic patients.