Tele-group Cognitive Behavioural Family Intervention for Individuals With Schizophrenia and Their Families (Definitive tgCBFI)
Recruiting · NCT07121166 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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What this trial is about
This mixed-method study comprises a RCT with a twelve-week post-intervention follow-up and focus group interviews. The RCT study aims to examine the effectiveness of delivering the tgCBFI programme to dyads of people with schizophrenia and their family caregivers, while the focus group interviews aim to qualitatively study the benefits of the tgCBFI programme from the service users and their family caregivers to provide a more in-depth understanding and complement the quantitative data. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does this online tgCBFI programme reduce the expressed emotion experienced and positive and negative symptoms of individuals with schizophrenia? Does this online tgCBFI programme reduce the perceived care burden and level of mood disturbances of family caregivers?
Who can take part
Inclusion criteria
- current diagnosis of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, based on ICD-10 made by the treating clinicians,
- aged 18-64, and
- able to read and write Chinese
Exclusion criteria
- having co-morbidity of learning disability, organic/neurological conditions, or substance use disorder, and
- living in a hostel
- II. Family caregivers
- Inclusion Criteria:
- aged 18 or above,
- able to read and write Chinese,
- live with service users, and
- nominated by the service users
- Exclusion Criteria:
- having active psychiatric conditions
Where it is running
6 locations listed.
- ALOHA (Eastern) - Chai Wan, Hong Kong
- Kowloon Hospital - Kowloon City, Hong Kong
- Kwai Chung Hospital - Kwai Chung, Hong Kong
- United Christian Hospital - Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
- Queen Mary Hospital - Pokfulam, Hong Kong
- ALOHA (Wong Tai Sin) - Tsz Wan Shan, Hong Kong