Trial reportEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2007
Family interventions for schizophrenia in Italy: randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Family-based interventions versus standard care for people with schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of Caregiver-Directed Psychosocial Interventions for Schizophrenia.Community mental health journal · 2018Pooled it
- Psychoeducation (brief) for people with serious mental illness.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Training to recognise the early signs of recurrence in schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Family intervention for schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2010Pooled it
- A systematic review of the international published literature relating to quality of institutional care for people with longer term mental health problems.BMC psychiatry · 2009Pooled it
- Clinical Utility of Long-Acting Injectable Risperidone in Schizophrenia and Bipolar I Disorder: A Review of Clinical Studies.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Review
- High Expressed Emotion and Warmth among Families of Patients with Schizophrenia in Greece.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Implementation of Psychodynamic Multifamily Groups for Severe Mental Illness: A Recovery-Oriented Approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Caregiver's quality of life and its positive impact on symptomatology and quality of life of patients with schizophrenia.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2017Article
- The role of family therapy in the management of schizophrenia: challenges and solutions.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2015Review
- Productivity loss and resource utilization, and associated indirect and direct costs in individuals providing care for adults with schizophrenia in the EU5.ClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR · 2015Article
- Effect of needs-assessment-based psychoeducation for families of patients with schizophrenia on quality of life of patients and their families: A controlled study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2014Article
- Perceived emotional support in remission: results from an 18-month follow-up of patients with early episode psychosis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2013Article
- The association between expressed emotion, illness severity and subjective burden of care in relatives of patients with schizophrenia. Findings from an Italian population.BMC psychiatry · 2012Article
- [Psychosocial interventions in severe mental illness: evidence and recommendations: psychoeducation, social skill training and exercise].Der Nervenarzt · 2012Review
- The relationships among perceived criticism, family contact, and consumer clinical and psychosocial functioning for African-American consumers with schizophrenia.Community mental health journal · 2009Article
- Digital mental health interventions for anxiety and depressive symptoms in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Revista de psiquiatria y salud mentalArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of multiple group family treatment for Schizophrenia.
methodRelatives were randomly provided with an informative programme (n = 50), or allocated to receive an additional support programme (n = 26). Patients did not attend the programme to overcome cultural and organizational implementation barriers. The 12 and 24 months clinical and family outcomes were assessed.
resultsPatients' compliance with standard care was greater at 12 months in the more intensive behavioural management group over a control group receiving treatment as usual (TAU) (n = 25). A reduction in levels of expressed emotion (EE), significantly more frequent in those receiving the additional support programme than just the informative, occurred after treatment completion. Other clinical and family outcomes did not differ. However, treatment benefits declined at 24 months, when baseline high EE was again predictive of patient's admission and relatives were more vulnerable to objective burden. Baseline illness severity variables predicted a number of medium and long-term poor clinical outcomes.
conclusionsAlthough family psychoeducation has been tested in a wide range of Anglo-Saxon settings, there remains need to assess outcomes more internationally. Effective family interventions for people with schizophrenia probably require continued administration of key-elements or ongoing informal support to deal with the vicissitudes of illnesses.
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