Psychosocial therapy for people with schizophrenia. A group of treatments will be offered to schizophrenia patients in this study to see the result of intervention.
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: F20- Schizophrenia
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/01/030487
- Lead Sponsor
- Government Medical College and Hospital Chandigarh
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 15
Inclusion Criteria
1 Schizophrenia (only F20.0-20.9) as per ICD-10.
2 Clinically stable patients defined as absence of exacerbation of illness requiring increase in drug doses by 50 % in past three months.
3 Age 18 to 55 years.
4 Duration of schizophrenia more than 1 year and less then 5 years
5 Those who will give written consent to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria
Any unstable major medical illness or substance dependence (except nicotine and caffeine).
• Those who are already receiving psychosocial intervention.
• Worsening of clinical condition while receiving psychosocial intervention
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To study the outcomes of psychosocial intervention in persons with schizophrenia <br/ ><br>During intervention sessions their issues will be addressed as per the needs. Soon after the intervention, post assessment will be done assessing again on Global Assessment of functioning GAF, WHO-QoL-BREF and additionally on Patient satisfaction scale PAT-SAT.Timepoint: There will be 8 sessions in whole study and the session duration will be 1 hour and frequency will be weekly.The total time point will be 8 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To study the psychosocial needs and outcomes of intervention in persons with schizophrenia <br/ ><br>To study the feasibility of psychosocial intervention in out patient clinic.Timepoint: This study includes intervention sessions which will be done on weekly basis and in 8 weeks 8 sessions will be completed.