Socially Inappropriate Behaviour in People With First Episode Psychosis: A Caregivers' Perspective
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 8
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Socially inappropriate behavior in patients with first episode psychosis and its related prevailing caregiving stress and burdens.
研究概览
简要总结
Social impairment is one of the core symptoms in first episode psychosis (FEP). Despite negative symptoms and social cognition impairment found in patient suffering from FEP, clinicians occasionally identified socially inappropriate behaviours (SIB) after onset and stabilization of psychotic disorder. It is also uncommon that some caregivers often complain about their relatives with psychosis of embarrassing and immature behaviour. SIB mainly observed in form of excessive emotional expression, childish behaviour and regressive behaviour. There is limited research focusing on this inadequate behavioural pattern in patient with first episode psychosis recently. It was worth investigating this phenomenon and gain more understanding in other comorbidity symptoms and caregiving distress arisen from this. Psychometric tests and validated assessment tools are well-developed for measuring positive symptoms, negative symptoms, neurocognitive deficits and social cognition impairment in schizophrenic patients but none of them is useful specifically for assessing SIB, and not to mention, from carer's perspective. It could be an obstacle for clinicians to investigate the phenomena of the prevalence and the impact on family in real life without any validated assessment tools or questionnaires. This qualitative study aims to identify the SIB in patients with FEP and to explore the caregiving experience and distress. Hopefully, this study may help designing a questionnaire for future exploration on this topic.
详细描述
Study Design
This study will be conducted in descriptive qualitative design. Descriptive qualitative design is an eclectic and pragmatic approach. It presents comprehensive summaries of a phenomenon or events in everyday language. It studies a phenomenon to discover patterns and themes about life events intensely. Meanings of the data provided by informants should be kept as much as possible in any interpretation of the researcher. It helps to in-depth understand the experiences of caring individuals with first episode psychosis in Hong Kong. It also allows them to express their observed socially inappropriate behaviors and perceived burdens and coping strategies in their own words. It allows researches to focus on discovering the experiences and gaining insights from informants regarding a poorly understood phenomenon and develop questionnaires or interventions.
Sampling
Purposive sampling will be employed in this study. Purposive sampling allows rich and in-depth data collection as researcher purposely selecting subjects who are judged to be suitable in the population or particularly knowledgeable about the issues under study. It is particular well suited to this study as it provides a systematic way of exploring the full picture of the observed phenomenon. Using homogeneous purposive sampling can ensure selecting samples for having a shared characteristic or set of characteristics and focusing on one specific subgroup in which all the sample members are similar in a particular level or hierarchy.
The subjects will be recruited from Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital (AHNH) and North District Hospital (NDH) psychiatric specialist out-patient clinic. The psychiatrists working in Early Assessment Services for Young People with psychosis (EASY) team will refer the suitable Chinese cases after granted the agreement from potential subjects. The Inclusion criteria framed all target subjects were Hong Kong primary caregivers whose offspring was primary diagnosed of schizophrenic spectrum disorder with social inappropriate behavior after onset of illness. The patient should be under active care by EASY team. The cases of bipolar affective disorder and drug induced psychosis should be excluded from the study. In addition, the cases of active substance abuse and presenting active psychotic symptoms were also not suitable for the study.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Family Based
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 64 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Active Chinese case in psychiatric specialist out-patient clinic
- •Suffering from schizophrenic spectrum disorder (ICD-10)
- •Showing socially inappropriate behavior after onset and stabilization of schizophrenic spectrum disorder
排除标准
- •Case of bipolar affective disorder, drug induced psychosis and intellectual disability
- •Case of active substance abuse
- •Case of presenting active psychotic symptoms
结局指标
主要结局
Socially inappropriate behavior in patients with first episode psychosis and its related prevailing caregiving stress and burdens.
时间窗: 12 Months
To identify and assess the clinical pictures of socially inappropriate behavior in first episode psychosis and its impact and related caregiving stress from caregivers' perspective by using face-to face semi-structured in-depth interview. This piece of study would explore the socially inappropriate behavior in patients with first episode psychosis. This study was expected to provide a descriptive summary and further understanding on the phenomenon interested. It would hope to arouse social attention and provide insight in future planning of social and healthcare resources in community regarding the prevailing burdens and caregiving stress perceived by caregivers of individuals who diagnosed first episode psychosis with socially inappropriate behavior in Hong Kong.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Chan Cheuk Yin
Registered Nurse (Psychiatric)
Hospital Authority, Hong Kong