Evaluation of the Effects of Mutual Support and Psycho-educational Group Interventions for Family Caregivers of People With Schizophrenia
试验速览
- 阶段
- 2 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 128
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- length of re-hospitalizations
研究概览
简要总结
The mutual support group intervention would significantly improve the families' burden of care, functioning and social support, reduce the patients' severity of symptoms and re-hospitalizations, and reduce the demands for utilization of family services, when compared with the standard care group.
详细描述
Family interventions in schizophrenia have shown positive effects on patients but little attention has been paid to their effects on family members, particularly those in non-Western countries. This multi-site randomized controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of a bi-weekly, 12-session, family-led mutual support group for Chinese caregivers of schizophrenia sufferers over 36 months, compared with a family psychoeducation group program and standard psychiatric care. It was conducted with 114 families of outpatients with schizophrenia in Hong Kong of whom 38 were assigned randomly to a mutual support group, a psychoeducation group, or standard care. Families' psychosocial health status and patients' symptom severity and length of re-hospitalizations at recruitment, one-month, 18-month, and 36-month post-intervention were compared between groups.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 50 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •family caregivers lived with and cared for one family member diagnosed with schizophrenia according to the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994)
- •family caregivers were at least 18 years of age and could understand and read the Chinese (Mandarin) language; and
- •family caregivers were free from any mental illness themselves.
排除标准
- •the patients with schizophrenia suffered no co-morbidity due to other mental illness during recruitment to the study
- •family caregivers cared for more than one family member with mental or chronic physical illness; and/or
- •family caregivers had been the primary carers for less than three months
结局指标
主要结局
length of re-hospitalizations
时间窗: at recruitment, six-month, 18-month and 36-month post-intervention
次要结局
- families' perceived social support(at recruitment, six-month, 18-month and 36-month post-intervention)
- patients' symptom severity(at recruitment, six-month, 18-month and 36-month post-intervention)
研究者
Chien Wai-Tong
Professor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University