October 2008 issue of Brazilian journal "Reports in Public Health" has an article about impact of involvement of family members of persons with schizophrenia.
Authors of this study looked at 11 different studies from different countries that involved family members of persons with schizophrenia.
In these different studies, family members of persons with schizophrenia received pragmatic, behavioural or cognitive-behavioural kind of training from mental health services and compared the situation with persons where the families were not involved. All the persons with schizophrenia received medication and other treatments. In some countries, the mental health professionals worked with associations of family members and provided them information and training.
It was found that involvement and training of family members reduced the relapse of the symptoms by 60% in the first year.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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