The social support, mental health, psychiatric symptoms, and functioning of persons with schizophrenia participating in peer co-delivered vocational rehabilitation: a pilot study in Taiwan

Table 4 Pre- vs. post-interventions: social support, mental health, psychiatric symptoms, social function, and earned income

	Pre-intervention		Post-intervention		df	t	P value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	df	t	P value
SSS	149.1	31.8	161.2	35.0	41	2.70	0.01^*
SSS-R	49.2	14.4	51.0	14.3	41	1.02	0.32
SSS-S	55.5	13.0	57.8	13.9	41	1.63	0.11
SSS-F	44.4	12.0	53.2	13.2	41	4.72	< 0.001^*
CHQ-12	3.1	2.6	2.8	2.5	41	−1.08	0.29
BPRS-18	31.2	6.7	29.3	5.0	41	−2.83	0.007^*
GAF	69.8	9.8	72.6	8.8	41	3.50	0.001^*
C-SFS	75.2	8.8	78.1	9.5	41	2.59	0.01^*
Weekly working hours	20.0	7.6	21.9	8.7	41	1.72	0.09
Weekly Income (USD)	37.5	35.5	43.6	38.0	41	2.57	0.01^*

*Statistically significant, p < 0.05
SD Standard deviation, SSS Social Support Scale, SSS-R Social Support Scale-Relatives or family, SSS-S Social Support Scale-Staffs or professionals, SSS-F Social Support Scale-Friends or peers, CHQ-12 Chinese Health Questionnaire-12, BPRS-18 Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-18, GAF Global Assessment of Function, C-SFS Chinese version of Social Function Scale

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