This study measured the impact of a digital competencies and skills course on participants with serious mental illness. Close to 75% of participants reported an improvement in a smartphone related skill, and the majority of participants that reported improvement in one skill reported improvement in at least one other. Qualitative feedback from participants suggests how digital competencies acquired were used to immediately support functional outcomes.

Objective

To improve functional outcomes in patients with serious mental illness through a multi-session curriculum designed to improve smartphone skills and engage participants in group learning and problem solving, targeting negative and cognitive symptoms of illness.

Methods

An eight-week smartphone digital competencies and skills course was offered to two distinct groups of youth with serious mental illness. Pre and post self-report measurements were captured for each participant for each session.

Results

Group participation varied by session, but overall 28 unique patients attended. From survey results, 75% reported improvement in smartphone related skills because of the groups. Qualitative feedback suggests how skills acquired by patients were immediately utilized to gain insight into health and support functional outcomes.

Conclusions and implications for practice

Smartphone skills groups are a means to provide practical psychiatric rehabilitation that may enable some patients to compensate for cognitive and social deficits due to illness. While ensuring groups are responsive to patients with varying degrees of skills remains a challenge, adapting lesson structures and mediums, as well as creating new measurement tools, offers a means to modify the course with the clinical need.

中文翻译：

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通过教授智能手机技能来改善严重精神疾病的功能结果的精神科康复

这项研究衡量了数字能力和技能课程对患有严重精神疾病的参与者的影响。接近 75% 的参与者报告说智能手机相关技能有所提高，而大多数报告一项技能有所提高的参与者报告说至少另一项技能有所提高。参与者的定性反馈表明，获得的数字能力如何被用来立即支持功能成果。

客观的

通过旨在提高智能手机技能并让参与者参与小组学习和解决问题的多节课程来改善严重精神疾病患者的功能结果，针对疾病的负面和认知症状。

方法

为两个不同的患有严重精神疾病的青年群体提供了为期八周的智能手机数字能力和技能课程。为每个会话的每个参与者捕获前后自我报告测量。

结果

小组参与因会议而异，但总共有 28 名独特的患者参加。从调查结果来看，75% 的人报告说，由于这些群体，智能手机相关技能有所提高。定性反馈表明患者获得的技能如何立即用于深入了解健康和支持功能结果。

结论和对实践的启示

智能手机技能组是提供实用的精神康复的一种手段，可以使一些患者补偿因疾病引起的认知和社会缺陷。虽然确保小组对不同程度技能的患者做出反应仍然是一个挑战，但调整课程结构和媒介，以及创建新的测量工具，提供了一种根据临床需要修改课程的方法。