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ACT-Based Psychoeducation for Schizophrenia Caregivers

NCT06971328 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 34

Last updated 2025-05-14

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Summary

Schizophrenia is an important mental health problem that requires caregivers because it causes disability. With the efforts to move from a hospital-based model to a community-based model in mental health services, the care of schizophrenia patients is mainly provided by their families at home, creating a significant care burden on caregivers or, on the contrary, post-traumatic development is reported. Psychiatric nurses are responsible for evaluating the patient together with their family by taking these conditions into consideration when providing care to individuals with mental illness. As a principle of humanistic and holistic care, nursing interventions to be implemented by psychiatric nurses to develop caregivers' coping methods, reduce their care burden and contribute to their post-traumatic development are extremely important in terms of the effectiveness and efficiency of care. Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)-based psychoeducation, whose effectiveness has been reported in the literature, is an important application in providing care to patients and families in psychiatric nursing practices. ACT is among the third generation therapies that aim to keep individuals in the moment with awareness, adopt the willingness to accept events instead of struggling with them, and create an important source of power in taking actions in line with life values. In this study, 17 out of 34 individuals determined by statistical methods among the caregivers of schizophrenia patients will be included in the control group and monitored, while 17 will receive 8 sessions of ACT-based psychoeducation in the intervention group, and the effects of the education on caregiver burden, post-traumatic development, and psychological resilience will be evaluated. There are very few studies in the literature where ACT-based psychoeducation is applied to caregivers of schizophrenia patients. Although studies examining the effects on individuals' caregiver burden and psychological resilience are limited, no study has been found examining its effects on post-traumatic development, and this constitutes the original value of the study. As a result of this study, it is expected that ACT-based education will reduce the caregiver burden in schizophrenia caregivers and increase their psychological resilience through post-traumatic development.

Conditions

  • Schizophrenia Patients

Interventions

OTHER

ACT-based psychoeducation

It is thought that ACT-based psychoeducation will be an effective psychiatric nursing practice in reducing the care burden of individuals caring for schizophrenia patients and increasing their post-traumatic development and psychological resilience. However, no study has been found in the literature evaluating the effects of these three parameters. In general, the number of ACT-based psychoeducation studies applied to schizophrenia caregivers is quite low. Three thesis studies were found in our country, and no study examining the effect of ACT-based psychoeducation on the post-traumatic development levels of schizophrenia caregivers was found in the domestic and foreign literature. Based on this gap in the literature, the planned study is aimed to be presented to the literature as an intervention that can be used in holistic psychiatric nursing care and to reveal its effects in the specified parameters.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ataturk University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-07
Primary Completion
2027-01-01
Completion
2027-06-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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