Impact of Watson's human caring-based health promotion program on caregivers of individuals with schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Caring for people with schizophrenia is accompanied by challenges that impact caregiver health. We conducted this study to explore the effect of a Caring Science-Based health promotion program on the sense of coherence and well-being among caregivers of persons with schizophrenia.

Methods

This randomized clinical trial with the Solomon four-group design was conducted on 72 caregivers randomly allocated into two intervention and two control groups. A health promotion program based on Watson's theory was performed individually through five face-to-face sessions and a four-week follow-up. Settings were the psychiatric centers of the three educational, specialty, and subspecialty Ibn-e-Sina, Moharary, and Hafez hospitals affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sc

SUBMITTER: Bagheri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10311737 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature