psychiatric disorders severe mental illness
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention group (N=70) participates in a psycho-education coping skills
training. The control group (N=70) participates in a newspaper reading group.
Both groups take place in 10 weekly sessi
Sponsors
Universiteit Maastricht
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: People with a severe mental illness and in particular psychosis of the schizophrenic or affective type. It involves patients with a non-organic psychosis (according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)) and a longterm course of disease (>2 years) and invalidating handicaps in daily functioning. In people with other diagnoses, such as a depressive disorder without psychosis; a severe anxiety disorder; or autism, treatment must not have had the desired effect and the problems in functioning have to be explicit (GAF
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Not fulfilling inclusion criteria
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Quality of life | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Care needs and social functioning | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed