ACT-Based Psychoeducation for Schizophrenia Caregivers
ConditionSchizophrenia Patients
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorAtaturk University
About this trial
Schizophrenia is an important mental health problem that requires caregivers because it causes disability. With the efforts to move from a hospital-based model to a community-based model in mental health services, the care of schizophrenia patients is mainly provided by their families at home, creating a significant care burden on caregivers or, on the contrary, post-traumatic development is reported. Psychiatric nurses are responsible for evaluating the patient together with their family by taking these conditions into consideration when providing care to individuals with mental illness. As a principle of humanistic and holistic care, nursing interventions to be implemented by psychiatric nurses to develop caregivers' coping methods, reduce their care burden and contribute to their post-traumatic development are extremely important in terms of the effectiveness and efficiency of care. Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)-based psychoeducation, whose effectiveness has been reported in the literature, is an important application in providing care to patients and families in psychiatric nursing practices. ACT is among the third generation therapies that aim to keep individuals in the moment with awareness, adopt the willingness to accept events instead of struggling with them, and create an important source of power in taking actions in line with life values. In this study, 17 out of 34 individuals determined by statistical methods among the caregivers of schizophrenia patients will be included in the control group and monitored, while 17 will receive 8 sessions of ACT-based psychoeducation in the intervention group, and the effects of the education on caregiver burden, post-traumatic development, and psychological resilience will be evaluated. There are very few studies in the literature where ACT-based psychoeducation is applied to caregivers of schizophrenia patients. Although studies examining the effects on individuals' caregiver burden and psychological resilience are limited, no study has been found examining its effects on post-traumatic development, and this constitutes the original value of the study. As a result of this study, it is expected that ACT-based education will reduce the caregiver burden in schizophrenia caregivers and increase their psychological resilience through post-traumatic development.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Providing primary care to an individual diagnosed with schizophrenia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) V
Living with the patient and providing care for at least 6 months
Being over 18 years of age
Being literate
Disqualifiers
The patient must live in a different house and spend less than 6 hours together per day
Having previously attended ACT or Psychoeducation programs
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
ACT-based psychoeducation
Other interventionIt is thought that ACT-based psychoeducation will be an effective psychiatric nursing practice in reducing the care burden of individuals caring for schizophrenia patients and increasing their post-traumatic development and psychological resilience. However, no study has been found in the literature evaluating the effects of these three parameters. In general, the number of ACT-based psychoeducation studies applied to schizophrenia caregivers is quite low. Three thesis studies were found in our country, and no study examining the effect of ACT-based psychoeducation on the post-traumatic development levels of schizophrenia caregivers was found in the domestic and foreign literature. Based on this gap in the literature, the planned study is aimed to be presented to the literature as an intervention that can be used in holistic psychiatric nursing care and to reveal its effects in the specified parameters.
Treatment groups
34 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Deney GrubuExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Kontrol grubuNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Sociodemographic Data Form
The experimental and control groups will be given a pre-test at the beginning of the study, a post-test after 8 weeks, and a follow-up test after four weeks. The questionnaire form to be applied in the pre-test and post-test is the Sociodemographic Data Form prepared by the researcher. Sociodemographic Data Form prepared by the researcher. The sociodemographic data form consists of age, gender, marital status, education level, degree of closeness to the patient, and duration of care.
Time frame
The measurement tests to be applied to the experimental and control groups will be the first test at the beginning of the study, the second test 8 weeks after the beginning, and the follow-up test four weeks after the second test.Secondary outcomes
1
Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale
Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale (scale consists of 19 items and will be scored from 1 to 5 from low to high (never, rarely, occasionally, quite often, almost always).
Time frame
The measurement tests to be applied to the experimental and control groups will be the first test at the beginning of the study, the second test 8 weeks after the beginning, and the follow-up test four weeks after the second test.Other outcomes
1
Posttraumatic Growth Questionnaire
The other scale used is the 21-item Posttraumatic Growth Questionnaire (scale from 0 to 5; never experienced, very little experienced, somewhat experienced, moderately experienced, very experienced, very experienced)
Time frame
The measurement tests to be applied to the experimental and control groups will be the first test at the beginning of the study, the second test 8 weeks after the beginning, and the follow-up test four weeks after the second test.2
Brief Resilience Scale
Another scale used is the 6-item Brief Resilience Scale (scoring from low to high; not at all appropriate, not appropriate, somewhat appropriate, appropriate, completely appropriate)
Time frame
The measurement tests to be applied to the experimental and control groups will be the first test at the beginning of the study, the second test 8 weeks after the beginning, and the follow-up test four weeks after the second test.Sponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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