AU - Abedi Tehrani, Hanie TI - P40: Effectiveness of Psychodrama on Reduction of Anxiety among Male Schizophrenic Patients PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - The-Neuroscience-Journal-of-Shefaye-Khatam JN - The-Neuroscience-Journal-of-Shefaye-Khatam VO - 2 VI - 3 IP - 3 4099 - http://shefayekhatam.ir/article-1-161-en.html 4100 - http://shefayekhatam.ir/article-1-161-en.pdf SO - The-Neuroscience-Journal-of-Shefaye-Khatam 3 ABĀ  - Anxiety is one of the symptoms in chronic schizophrenic patients. Past research studies show that psychodrama as a group therapy is effective in treatment and rehabilitation of psychological disorders. The aim of this study is to explore the effect of psychodrama on the reduction of anxiety in schizophrenic patients. 26 male hospitalized chronic schizophrenic patients were randomly assigned into an experimental group (n=13) and a control group (n=13). Both groups were treated with antipsychotic drugs and were evaluated by using self-rating Anxiety scale. Then the patients in the experimental group received 20 sessions of the treatment of psychodrama. Finally both groups were evaluated again. The pre-test and post-test scores were comprised by using t-student test. After psychodrama therapy, the average of total anxiety scores and affective symptoms of anxiety subscale decreased significantly in the experimental group (P CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - The-Neuroscience-Journal-of-Shefaye-Khatam PG - 64 PT - Research --- Open Access, CC-BY-NC YR - 2014