The Effect of an Individual Empowerment Program Provided to Relatives of Schizophrenia Patients

NCT07173192 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2025-09-15

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Summary

Psychoeducation provided to family members caring for individuals with schizophrenia. Has been found to positively impact caregivers' psychological well-being and the effective management of schizophrenia patients.However, further experimental studies are recommended in this area, along with support for caregivers' psychological well-being. Primary caregivers, which includes both psychoeducation and applications aimed at developing coping skills, on the care burden, psychological well-being,and self-efficacy. Considering the gaps in the literature, the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of an individual empowerment program applied to primary caregivers of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia on the burden of care, psychological well-being, and self-efficacy.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Individual empowerment program

Data collection tools will be applied to individuals in the experimental and control groups as a pre-test. Individual empowerment training sessions will be applied to individuals in the experimental group totaling (6 sessions) as part of the individual empowerment program. No intervention will be performed on individuals in the control group; they will receive standard discharge education. Data collection tools will be applied to individuals in both groups for post-tests immediately after the experimental group completes all individual empowerment program sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istanbul Arel University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • zeynep dağ psychiatric nurse · Istanbul Arel University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-15
Primary Completion
2025-11-30
Completion
2026-02-15

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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