Pilot study to test the feasibility and clinical efficacy of a psychosocial care programme for patients with psychosis in low-resource settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home-based psychosocial care has the potential to improving outcomes in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders (SCZ). There is lack of India data for such care in early psychosis. We developed the "Saksham" programme, a bespoke self-managed home-based psychosocial care model, available in two formats: manual-based and mobile-application based. With the anticipated success of recruitment of early psychosis cases in our setting, we plan to test the such intervention in this population in future trials.

Aim

To assess the feasibility of the Saksham programme intervention in people with SCZ and its clinical efficacy as an adjunct to treatment as usual.

Methods

Seventy-five patient-caregiver pairs (total n=150) were recruited. Patients received either:

SUBMITTER: Sood M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11535309 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature