Trial reportPsychological medicine2017
An international multi-site, randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based psychoeducation group programme for people with schizophrenia.
Trial report in Psychological medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-based Illness Management Program for Chinese Patients With Schizophrenia: An Randomised Controlled Trial
The Effectiveness of a Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program on Emotional Regulation for People With Schizophrenia: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of psychological treatments on functioning in people with Schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Mindfulness-based interventions for non-affective psychosis: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Home practice in mindfulness-based interventions for psychosis groups: a systematic review and qualitative study.BMC psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Primary-level worker interventions for the care of people living with mental disorders and distress in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions for People with Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Self-management interventions for people with severe mental illness: systematic review and meta-analysis.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2019Pooled it
- Effectiveness of a peer-facilitated, recovery-focused self-illness management program for adults with first-episode psychosis: A randomized controlled trial.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Trial
- Availability and effectiveness of multicomponent interventions for early psychosis in 20 low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Article
- The efficacy of meditation on insula dysfunction in patients with chronic schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Effects of mindfulness-based intervention in preventing relapse in patients with remitted psychosis: a randomized controlled trial.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Reliability and validity of the Mental Health Self-management Questionnaire among Chinese patients with mood and anxiety disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Dispositional Mindfulness and Psychotic Symptoms in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: The Mediating Roles of Rumination and Negative Emotion.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2022Article
- Mindfulness for psychosis groups; description and preliminary evaluation of a novel routine care pathway in Hong Kong.International journal of mental health systems · 2020Article
- The Role of Five Facets of Mindfulness in a Mindfulness-Based Psychoeducation Intervention for People With Recent-Onset Psychosis on Mental and Psychosocial Health Outcomes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Mindfulness-Based Interventions for In-Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders-A Qualitative Approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Biological mechanism study of meditation and its application in mental disorders.General psychiatry · 2020Review
- The Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Psychoeducation Programme for Emotional Regulation in Individuals with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2020Article
- ADDRESSING DIVERSITY IN MINDFULNESS RESEARCH ON HEALTH: A NARRATIVE REVIEW USING THE ADDRESSING FRAMEWORK.Cooper Rowan medical journal · 2019Article
- A Randomized Controlled Trial on Mutual Support Group Intervention for Families of People With Recent-Onset Psychosis: A Four-Year Follow-Up.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundWe aimed to test a mindfulness-based psychoeducation group (MBPEG), v. a conventional psychoeducation group (CPEG) v. treatment as usual (TAU), in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders over a 24-month follow-up.
methodThis single-blind, multi-site, pragmatic randomized controlled trial was conducted in six community treatment facilities across three countries (Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan). Patients were randomly allocated to one of the treatment conditions, and underwent 6 months of treatment. The primary outcomes were changes in duration of re-hospitalizations and mental state (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale; PANSS) between baseline and 1 week, and 6, 12 and 18 months post-treatment.
resultsA total of 300 patients in each country were assessed for eligibility between October 2013 and 30 April 2014, 38 patients per country (n = 342) were assigned to each treatment group and included in the intention-to-treat analysis. There was a significant difference in the length of re-hospitalizations between the three groups over 24 months (F 2,330 = 5.23, p = 0.005), with MBPEG participants having a shorter mean duration of re-hospitalizations than those in the other groups. The MBPEG and CPEG participants had significant differential changes in proportional odds ratios of complete remission (all individual PANSS items <3) over the 24-month follow-up (37 and 26%, respectively), as opposed to only 7.2% of the TAU group (χ2 = 8.9 and 8.0, p = 0.001 and 0.003, relative risk = 3.5 and 3.1, 95% confidence interval 2.0-7.2 and 1.6-6.3).
conclusionsCompared with TAU and CPEG, MBPEG improves remission and hospitalization rates of people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders over 24 months.
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