Background: Promoting recovery of patients with schizophrenia contributes to improving their
capacity to manage their illness by themselves and reducing their psychological difficulties
which in return improve overall quality of life despite their illness. Aim: The study aimed to
evaluate the efficacy of recovery program on self-management for patients with schizophrenia.
Design: The study followed a randomization control (experimental) design . Setting: The study
was conducted at the psychiatric, neurology and neurosurgery center and the psychiatric
department of Tanta University Hospital. Subject: randomized sample of 60 patients with
schizophrenia. Those patients were divided randomly into study and control groups (30 patients
for each). Tools: Data were collected using three tools: Tool I: Recovery Assessment Scale, Tool
II: Patient Activation Measures (PAM) and Tool III: Modified Colorado Symptom Index (CSI)
Results: The study revealed that implementation of recovery program among patients with
schizophrenia had highly strong positive correlation with self-management and highly strong
negative correlation with psychological difficulties immediate and after 3 months of the program
Conclusion: The efficacy of recovery program on achieving higher self-management and
lowering psychological difficulties of patients with schizophrenia in comparison to before the
program. Recommendation: Recovery program should be incorporated with pharmacological
therapy for treatment of patients with schizophrenia to help them reach optimal recovery level
and gaining their ability to manage their illness by themselves.