Resourcefulness Group Intervention on Recovery and Quality of Life

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Chronic Schizophrenia; Recovery

Treatments: Behavioral: Resourcefulness Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06206798

C110142

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to test the effects of resourcefulness group intervention on facilitating recovery and improving the quality of life in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

Full description

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the effects of resourcefulness group intervention on facilitating recovery and improving the quality of life in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

Methods: A longitudinal and interventional study with a quasi-experimental research design and convenience sampling were used in this study. Patients with chronic schizophrenia from a psychiatric hospital in northern Taiwan were recruited as subjects and were divided under random assignment into the experimental group and the control group with twenty participants in each. The twenty participants in the experiment group were further randomly distributed into two groups. Both received resourcefulness group intervention weekly for six weeks, while the control group followed regular care routines and underwent conventional treatment. All participants took a pretest before the intervention, the first posttest after six rounds of intervention, and the second posttest four weeks after the group intervention was completed. Data were collected using structured questionnaires, including the Chinese version of the Resourcefulness Scale (C-RS), the Chinese Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR), the WHOQOL-BREF Taiwan Version, and other personal information.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia by a psychiatrist for more than two years and are currently receiving rehabilitation treatment in a chronic ward.
• Age between 20-64 years old.
• Those with stable conditions can communicate in Mandarin or Taiwanese.

Exclusion criteria

• Exclude clients with Intellectual Disabilities, Organic Encephalopathy, Substance-related and addictive disorders, Personality disorders, Dementia, Cancers, etc.
• Those who are unable to understand the contents of the consent form.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

1. Subjects were randomly assigned to the experimental or the control group. 2. There were 20 members in the experimental group who received 6-week intervention activities. 3. Each subject was asked to fill out the questionnaires three times in total. The first time was before the intervention; the second time was right after the intervention; and the last time was four weeks later of the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Resourcefulness Group

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

1. There were 20 members in the control group who accepted chronic nursing care as usual without any nursing intervention. 2. Each subject was asked to fill out the questionnaires three times in total. The first time was the same time as the experimental group; the second time was 6 weeks after the first test; and the last time was four weeks after the second test.