The Effect of Psychoeducation on Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Individuals With Schizophrenia

Summary

Definition: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder that causes drastic changes in life quality and life functions, characterized by behavioural, cognitive and affective state deterioration. Therefore, it is regarded as one of the most important health problems causing both personal and economic problems around the world. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours in individuals with chronic mental disorders, like schizophrenia, are emphasized to play a big part in physical health problems. For individuals to develop a healthy lifestyle behaviour, it is necessary to primarily determine the lifestyle behaviours and then prevent the illnesses caused by the lifestyle and deaths linked to these illnesses. Current theory or models used to benefit from health programmes, prepared for the development of healthy lifestyle behaviours, should be deep-scaled. Theories and models are guides for systematic planning and decision-making. A well-defined model could contribute to the process of effective health improvement programmes for directive and content creation. One of the models mainly used to develop a behavioural change in health and explain how to obtain the most effective health behavioural change is the "Transtheoretical Model". Objective: The study was conducted with the pretest-posttest randomized controlled trial design to detect the effect of psychoeducation on a healthy lifestyle, based on the Transtheoretical Model in an individual with schizophrenia.

The Hypotheses of the Study Hypothesis 1: When the individuals with schizophrenia who received psychoeducation based on the Transtheoretical Model are compared to the ones that did not, they will show progress in behavioural change steps.

Hypothesis 2: When the individuals with schizophrenia who received psychoeducation based on the Transtheoretical Model are compared to the ones that did not, they will have higher final test results in the healthy lifestyle scale.

Methods: The data were collected from 82 participants, as 41 intervention and 41 control. The data were collected via personal information form, behavioural change stage diagnosis form and healthy lifestyle scale II. 6-week psychoeducation, consisting of 6 modules, based on the Transtheoretical model, was applied to the intervention group. No interventions were applied to the control group. Pretests and posttests were applied to both groups.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducation Based on the Transtheoretical Model on Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors

Healthy lifestyle behaviours psychoeducation programme, based on the Transtheoretical Model, with 6 sessions (healthcare responsibility, nutrition, physical activity, spiritual development, interpersonal relationships, stress management) was applied to the intervention group for 6 weeks as three days in the weekdays and two sessions in a day. Psychoeducation was carried out by the researcher on the same day but within different time zones. Each psychoeducation session took 90-120 minutes with the breaks taken considering the participants' mood. After completing six sessions, the behavioural change identification form and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale II were applied to the intervention group again.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hatay Training and Research Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Sercan Mansuroğlu, Dr. · Hatay Training and Research Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-04-01

Primary Completion

2020-09-18

Completion

2020-11-02

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations