Psychoeducation (brief) for people with serious mental illness

作者：Sai Zhao, Stephanie Sampson, Jun Xia, Mahesh Jayaram · 发表于：Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.1002/14651858.cd010823.pub2 · 被引用次数：136 · 研究领域：Schizophrenia research and treatment、Family Caregiving in Mental Illness、Mental Health Treatment and Access

BACKGROUND: Those with serious/severe mental illness, especially schizophrenia and schizophrenic-like disorders, often have little to no insight regarding the presence of their illness. Psychoeducation may be defined as the education of a person with a psychiatric disorder regarding the symptoms, treatments, and prognosis of that illness. Brief psychoeducation is a short period of psychoeducation; although what constitutes 'brief psychoeducation' can vary. A previous systematic review has shown that the median length of psychoeducation is around 12 weeks. In this current systematic review, we defined 'brief psychoeducation' as programmes of 10 sessions or less. OBJECTIVES: To assess the efficacy of brief psychoeducational interventions as a means of helping severely mentally ill people when added to 'standard' care, compared with the efficacy of standard care alone.The secondary objective is to investigate whether there is evidence that a particular kind (individual/ family/group) of brief psychoeducational intervention is superior to others. SEARCH METHODS: We searched the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group register September 2013 using the phrase:[*Psychoeducat* in interventions of STUDY]. Reference lists of included studies were also inspected for further relevant studies. We also contacted authors of included study for further information regarding further data or details of any unpublished trials. SELECTION CRITERIA: All relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing b...