Depressive Disorder, Mental Disorder, Schizophrenia
Conditions
Keywords
Family, Coping Skills, Psychoeducation, Stress, Psychological, Health Education
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of psychoeducation for relatives to patients with serious mental illness.
Detailed description
The main aim of the study is to compare the effects of group psychoeducation for relatives to patients with serious mental illness with a waiting list control group. The main hypothesis is whether psychoeducation in groups has effects on the stress experience and coping style in the relatives. The relatives will receive group education in 6 weekly sessions. We will measure stress experience, coping style and the relatives' health condition before the sessions, after the sessions and at one year follow-up.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPsychoeducation
Structured disorder-related educational program for relatives
Sponsors
St. Olavs Hospital
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Relatives to patients having a psychotic or bipolar disorder * Good Norwegian language skills * Consent to participate * The patients' consent for their relatives to participate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| ECI (Experience of Caregiving Inventory) (Smuckler et al,1994) | 0-6 months |
| COOP/WONCA (Bowling, 1995) | 0-6 months |
| Selection of questions from COPE (Carver et al. 1989) | 0-6 months |
| Evaluation-questions | 0-6 months |
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed