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ReviewSchizophrenia bulletin2006

Psychoeducation: a basic psychotherapeutic intervention for patients with schizophrenia and their families.

Josef Bäuml, Teresa Froböse, Sibylle Kraemer, Michael Rentrop, Gabriele Pitschel-Walz

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Review in Schizophrenia bulletin, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 294 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Psychological interventions for women with non-metastatic breast cancer.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  4. Psychological interventions for psychosis in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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  5. S3 guideline on psychosocial therapies in severe mental illness: evidence and recommendations.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2015
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  6. Psychoeducation for schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011
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  9. Effectiveness of preoperative group education for patients with colorectal cancer: managing expectations.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Josef BäumlHospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University of Munich, Ismaninger Strasse 22, D-81675 Munich, Germany. j.baeuml@lrz.tum.de.
Teresa Froböse
Sibylle Kraemer
Michael Rentrop
Gabriele Pitschel-Walz
Technical University of Munich · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psychoeducation was originally conceived as a composite of numerous therapeutic elements within a complex family therapy intervention. Patients and their relatives were, by means of preliminary briefing concerning the illness, supposed to develop a fundamental understanding of the therapy and further be convinced to commit to more long-term involvement. Since the mid 1980s, psychoeducation in German-speaking countries has evolved into an independent therapeutic program with a focus on the didactically skillful communication of key information within the framework of a cognitive-behavioral approach. Through this, patients and their relatives should be empowered to understand and accept the illness and cope with it in a successful manner. Achievement of this basic-level competency is considered to constitute an "obligatory-exercise" program upon which additional "voluntary-exercise" programs such as individual behavioral therapy, self-assertiveness training, problem-solving training, communication training, and further family therapy interventions can be built. Psychoeducation looks to combine the factor of empowerment of the affected with scientifically founded treatment expertise in as efficient a manner as possible. A randomized multicenter study based in Munich showed that within a 2-year period such a program was related to a significant reduction in rehospitalization rates from 58% to 41% and also a shortening of intermittent days spent in hospital from 78 to 39 days. Psychoeducation, in the form of an obligatory-exercise program, should be made available to all patients suffering from a schizophrenic disorder and their families.

Indexed as

CognitionHealth EducationMental HealthCognitive Behavioral TherapyFamilyHumansSchizophreniaSecondary PreventionSocial Support

Identifiers

PMID16920788
PMCPMC2683741
OpenAlexW2168232819

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