Psychoeducation for Vietnamese Families With a Patient With Schizophrenia

NCT ID: NCT02715349

Last Updated: 2016-03-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 59 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2015-07-31

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

Schizophrenia

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Psychoeducation

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.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Psychoeducation

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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.

Control

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

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Psychoeducation

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.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Danang Psychiatric Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Ngoc Tran, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Danang Psychiatric Hospital

Locations

Danang Psychiatric Hospital

Da Nang, , Vietnam

Countries

Vietnam

Other Identifiers

DPH20140818

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id