Psychoeducation for Vietnamese Families With a Patient With Schizophrenia

Danang Psychiatric Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Schizophrenia

Treatments: Behavioral: Psychoeducation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02715349

DPH20140818

Details and patient eligibility

About

Families with a patient with schizophrenia and the patient are randomly assigned to receive either a 3 session psychoeducation program, or no psychoeducation. Other treatment for schizophrenia and other mental illness are provided as usual.

Full description

Families with a patient with schizophrenia and the patient are randomly assigned to receive either a 3 session psychoeducation program, or no psychoeducation. Other treatment for schizophrenia and other mental illness are provided as usual. The psychoeducation program focuses on: (a) explaining schizophrenia as a medical, biological illness, (b) the prognosis for schizophrenia (e.g., that it is possible to lead a normal life), and (c) what the family and patient can do to maximize the outcome.

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of schizophrenia, based on ICD-10
• Receive in-patient treatment at hospital
• Length of schizophrenia less than 3 years.
• Treated 3 or less times for schizophrenia.

Exclusion criteria

• Mental retardation, or other diagnoses that could affect the ability to answer questionnaires, after the acute schizophrenia psychosis is controlled.
• Suicidal ideation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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59 participants in 2 patient groups

Psychoeducation

Experimental group

Description:

3 session psychoeducation program with the family, and 3 session psychoeducation program with the patient, after psychosis is controlled. Psychoeducation focuses on explaining schizophrenia as a medical illness, the prognosis, and how the patient and family can increase the likelihood of better outcome.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychoeducation

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Family and patient do not receive psychoeducation, but still receive standard hospital services for schizophrenia.