Psychoeducation in Patients Who Diagnosed With Schizophrenia

Gazi University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Compliance, Treatment; Well-Being; Quality of Life

Treatments: Behavioral: Group Psychoeducation that Focused on Social Skill Development

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04280835

MKTatu

Details and patient eligibility

About

People with schizophrenia are faced with social problems such as repeated hospitalizations, stigma with lack of social skills, unemployment, lack of necessary and adequate health care and education due to lack of adequate care in the community they live in. It is known that psychoeducation practices aimed at developing social skills in schizophrenia give patients new skills and these skills continue for many years. This study aimed to determine the effect of group psychoeducation that focused on social skill development on treatment adaptation, quality of life and well-being in schizophrenia patients and the interaction between these variables over time.

Full description

The aim is to determine the effect of group psychoeducation that focused on social skill development on treatment adaptation, quality of life and well-being in schizophrenia patients and the interaction between these variables over time.

The study was conducted with 42 schizophrenia patients (n=21 intervention group; n=21 control group) using a quasi-experimental research design. Patients were evaluated using a pre-test, post-test, monitoring test, "Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS)", "Quality of Life Scale for Schizophrenia (QLSS)" and "Flourishing Scale" (FS). The measurements were taken 3 times: pre test, post-test and 3-months post-test.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 61 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering
• Being 18 and over being literate
• Having been diagnosed with schizophrenia for at least three months
• Taking oral antipsychotics
• Being in remission.

Exclusion criteria

• Being in an acute period of exacerbation
• Actively using alcohol or psychoactive substances
• Having mental retardation or dementia
• Having another psychiatric illness that makes it impossible to cooperate.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Group Psychoeducation that Focused on Social Skill Development

Experimental group

Description:

The Psychoeducation program that focused on social skill development, consists of 8 sessions, one day a week, each lasting an average of 60 Minutes. Psychoeducation was conducted in three groups and each of them consisted of eight patients.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group Psychoeducation that Focused on Social Skill Development

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was performed on the patients in the control group, and routine follow-up (arranging treatment by the doctor, answering the patient's and family's questions about treatment) continued in the polyclinic.