Occupational Therapy Projective Techniques on Anger and Occupational Performance of Person with Acute Psychosis

Background: Acute psychosis is the presence of a mental state where appreciation of reality is impaired, as evidenced by the presence of psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, mood disturbance, and bizarre behaviour. [1] According to ICD 10, Sections F20 and F21 are devoted to 'Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders'. The majority were married, unemployed, educated up to middle school, living in a nuclear family, and had a rural background. Age (p = 0.05) and marital status (p = 0.03) significantly affected the outcome. Aim: To find out the effect of projective techniques on anger and Occupational performance of person with acute psychosis. Methodes: A total 16 patients were selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. This study conducted on Inpatient, Arisjuvady mental health centre in Pondicherry. They were divided into Group A (Experimental Group (N=8)) and Group B (Control Group (N=8)). The experimental group received conventional Occupational Therapy program and projective techniques and control group received conventional Occupational therapy intervention for 45 min/day, 12 days in a month for 12 month. The outcome values (Pretest and post-test) were measured by Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) and Novaca Anger scale (NAC). Then the gathered data values were interpretated by SPSS Version 28.0.0.1 respectively. Result: The study concluded that the Projective techniques were more effective in improving anger and occupational performance of person with acute psychosis.