Needs-tailored Nurse-led Recovery Program for Community-dwelling People With Schizophrenia

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Status

Completed

Conditions

Medication Adherence

Schizophrenia

Recovery

Treatments

Behavioral: needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT05304780

needs-tailored

Details and patient eligibility

About

Meeting people's needs is positively correlated with their recovery. However, recovery services rarely include nurse-led programs tailored to the needs of these people. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a new needs-tailored recovery program by using a cluster-randomized controlled trial design.

Full description

First year, investigators used the pilot study to test the needs tailored recovery program feasibility, acceptability and preliminary usefulness of the needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program. In the second year, based on the findings of the pilot study, a cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program in two psychiatric centers in northern Taiwan. The treatment group receive the needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program by their home-care nurses over 6 months. The control group receive the usual community psychiatric care only. Data were collected before the intervention, after the intervention, and at a follow-up session three months after the end of the intervention period. The outcomes were recovery, needs, hope, empowerment, psychotic symptoms, and medication adherence. The investigators used repeated measures ANOVA tests to examine the effect of the group × time interaction.

Enrollment

164 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 64 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

were living in the community and had a diagnosis of schizophrenia based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5)
were aged 20-64 years
were able to communicate in Mandarin or Taiwanese.

Exclusion criteria

were living in a community institution such as a recovery home, community rehabilitation center, nursing home, or day hospital
had a neurocognitive disorder, substance abuse disorder, or comorbidity.