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.

Completed

• Conditions: Schizophrenia,

• Registration Number: CTRI/2021/01/030487
• Lead Sponsor: Government Medical College and Hospital Chandigarh

Brief Summary

After receiving ethical clearance, those patients who are attending to psychiatry OPD and diagnosis with schizophrenia (F20.0-20.9) as per ICD-10 criteria and meting the inclusion and exclusion criteria and give consent for the study were initially assessed consecutively.

Socio-demographic and Clinical details will be collected from the case record file and from the patient or care givers. A detail psychosocial assessment was done then Psychosocial Intervention Needs checklist will be filled based on the psychosocial assessment and information from the patients then they were assessed on Global Assessment of functioning (GAF), WHO-QoL-BREF.

Subsequently, sessions were planned as per the intervention package (psychosocial intervention) was proceeded along with the routine treatment from the OPD. All interventions in the package will not be applicable for all the patients it will be specifically made for each person with schizophrenia depending upon the score of socio occupation functioning scale. After that during intervention sessions their issues were 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).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-01-15
• Study Completion: 2021-07-30
• Last Update Posted: 2021-09-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• 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	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
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.	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	To study the feasibility of psychosocial intervention in out patient clinic.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

GMCH 32 Chandigarh; 🇮🇳 Chandigarh, CHANDIGARH, India

GMCH 32 Chandigarh

🇮🇳Chandigarh, CHANDIGARH, India

Ashfaq Ahmad Dangroo

Principal investigator

7006360294

ashfaqad777@gmail.com