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Strengths-Based Family Psychoeducation for Youth Psychosis

NCT01731977 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 74

Last updated 2016-01-05

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Summary

The onset of Psychosis forces family members to bear a heavy burden of care. The mental well-being of the family is so complicated that it is important to relieve their psychological stresses. Although family psychoeducation has been established as an evidence-based practice especially for schizophrenia, few studies have primarily intended to reduce the distress of the family due to the burden of care. MacFarlane's multifamily psychoeducation is one of the representative models of a group setting, which is based on the behavioral therapeutic approach. In such psychological interventions, it has been emphasized to focus on the strengths that a person originally has for coping with difficulties. The intervention of mainly drawing the strengths from the family might empower them and lighten their psychological burden.

The first 2-5 years from the onset of psychosis is regarded as the critical period to improve the prognosis, so the intervention including more recent-onset psychotic patients might be of use. With regard to a setting of the psychoeducational intervention, a homogeneous group one can make the program better fitted for their problems. The present study aims to examine if the strength-based family psychoeducaiton for youth psychosis in a group setting in addition to the treatment as usual would be more effective for alleviating the psychological distresses of the family than the treatment as usual alone. Moreover, its impact on the family of recent-onset psychosis is explored as the subgroup.

Conditions

  • Psychological Stresses

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Strengths-based family psychoeducation

Family psychoeducation in a group setting is performed every two weeks for eight weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aichi Health Promotion Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Nagoya City University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nao Shiraishi, MD · Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
74 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-07-31
Primary Completion
2016-01-31
Completion
2016-01-31

Countries

  • Japan

Study Locations

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