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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report.
Mental health experts say less than 10 percent of people with mental sickness in poor countries receive treatment. Researchers found the most successful way to treat these people is to bring health care to them.
A new study shows that community-based in-home care is an effective method for treating people with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a long-term and often disabling brain disorder. People with schizophrenia suffer a break in the relation between their thoughts, their feelings and their behaviour. They may hear voices that others do not.
Schizophrenics often withdraw from reality, from family and friends. This means they may not seek out necessary medical treatment.
The main treatment for schizophrenia is medication, but it must be taken by doctor's orders. And that can cause problems. Often people suffering from mental illness do not remember to take the medication.
Recently, researchers carried out a long-term study at 3 places in India. They looked at community care for patients in their homes, then the researchers compared it to care received at mental health centers. The study involved almost 300 schizophrenic patients, ages 16 to 60.
Graham Thornicroft is a professor of community psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College in London. He led the study. He feels the best way to treat people with mental illness in poor countries is to make care easy to get.
"So, what we wanted to do in this study is to find out, can we develop a relatively simple and affordable type of treatment that will increase the number of people who get treatment and increase the quality of care," said Thornicroft.
Mr Thornicroft says trained health care workers visited the homes of 187 schizophrenic patients. These workers gave the patients medication and follow-up care between doctor visits. They told family members about how to care for the loved ones.
This in-home, community care was combined with visits to mental health centers. The progress of this group was then compared to a group of 95 patients who received care only at mental health centers. Mr Thornicroft says that a year later, the patients who received in-home care experienced major improvements.
"For example, voices or delusions were less in the community treatment option. Secondly, the levels of disability were lower when people had community care as well as the medical treatment [in clinic] and third, people were more often likely to take their medication if they had the close support of [someone] coming to visit their homes rather than getting no follow-up between the doctors' visits," said Thornicroft.
The study shows that people who had community care, combined with visits to mental health centers were more connected to reality, had fewer disabilities, and were more likely to take the medications.
And that's the Health Report. I'm Anna Matteo.
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词汇解释
1.schizophrenia n. [内科] 精神分裂症
Dr Nash suffered from schizophrenia for a long time.
纳什教授长时间患有精神分裂症。
2.psychiatry n. 精神病学；精神病治疗法
A physician is someone who specializes in psychiatry.
精神病专家是专门从事精神病治疗的人。
3.follow-up adj. 后续的；增补的 n. 随访；跟进；后续行动
They are recording a follow-up to their successful 1989 album.
他们正在为1989年那张成功专辑录制一张续辑。
内容解析
1.Schizophrenics often withdraw from reality, from family and friends.
withdraw from 退出；离开；(从银行)支取(钱)，提(款)，兑(现金)
I don't know if he will withdraw from the race.
我不知道他是否将退出比赛。
She withdrew $50 from her savings account and bought a gift for her friend.
她从储蓄账户上取了50美元给朋友买了礼物。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。
心理健康专家称贫困国家只有不到10%心理疾病患者得到治疗，研究者发现治疗的最佳办法是给他们带去卫生护理。
一项新研究表明，基于社区的家庭护理是治疗精神分裂症的最佳办法，精神分裂是一种长期的、往往导致大脑失调的疾病。精神分裂患者会出现思想、感觉和行为故障，他们可能还会出现幻听。
精神分裂者通常会逃避现实、家人和朋友。这意味着他们不会寻求必要的治疗。
精神分裂的治疗主要靠药物，但必须在医嘱下服药。但这也会出现问题，精神疾病患者往往不记得要吃药。
最近，研究者在印度进行三个地方进行了长期研究，他们研究病人在家里获得的社区护理，然后将之与心理健康中心获得的护理进行对比。研究涉及近300名年龄在16到60岁的精神病患者。
格雷厄姆·索尼克罗夫特是伦敦国王学院精神研究所的社区精神病学教授，他是研究负责人。他认为治疗贫困国家心理疾病患者的最佳办法是方便患者获得护理。
“我们想通过研究，看是否能找到相对简单且实惠的治疗，来让更多人获得治疗并提高护理的质量。”
索尼克罗夫特说训练有序的医疗工作者走访了187位精神病患者的家，这些工作者在医生访问的空白期给病人提供药物和后续护理，告诉家人如何照顾他们。
这种家庭和社区护理同造访心理健康中心相结合，然后拿这组实验对象的进展与另外95名只接受心理健康中心护理的患者来对比。索尼克罗夫特说一年后，接受家里护理的患者改善很大。
“比如，接受社区护理的患者出现幻听和幻觉的次数少了，第二，当同时接受社区护理和医疗中心治疗时致残的几率下降了，第三，与医生来访空白期没有人造访相比，如果有人到家来表示亲密的支持，患者更愿意服药。”
研究表明，接受社区护理和心理健康中心治疗相结合更接近现实，致残率更低，患者更愿意服药。
这就是健康报道，我是安娜·马特奥。
