Status:
COMPLETED
Effectiveness of Family Group Interventions for People With Schizophrenia
Lead Sponsor:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Conditions:
Schizophrenia
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-50 years
Phase:
PHASE2
Brief Summary
The mutual support group intervention would significantly improve the families' burden of care, functioning and social support, reduce the patients' severity of symptoms and re-hospitalizations, and r...
Detailed Description
Family interventions in schizophrenia have shown positive effects on patients but little attention has been paid to their effects on family members, particularly those in non-Western countries. This m...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- family caregivers lived with and cared for one family member diagnosed with schizophrenia according to the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994)
- family caregivers were at least 18 years of age and could understand and read the Chinese (Mandarin) language; and
- family caregivers were free from any mental illness themselves.
Exclusion
- the patients with schizophrenia suffered no co-morbidity due to other mental illness during recruitment to the study
- family caregivers cared for more than one family member with mental or chronic physical illness; and/or
- family caregivers had been the primary carers for less than three months
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2007
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
128 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00940394
Start Date
January 1 2007
End Date
December 1 2011
Last Update
August 21 2014
Active Locations (2)
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Li Ka Shing Specialty OPD
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
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AHNH Psychiatric OPD
Taipo, NT, Hong Kong