Community-based Rehabilitation Intervention for people with Schizophrenia in Ethiopia (RISE): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Care for most people with schizophrenia is best delivered in the community and evidence-based guidelines recommend combining both medication and a psychosocial intervention, such as community-based rehabilitation. There is emerging evidence that community-based rehabilitation for schizophrenia is effective at reducing disability in middle-income country settings, yet there is no published evidence on the effectiveness in settings with fewer mental health resources. This paper describes the protocol of a study that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation as an adjunct to health facility-based care in rural Ethiopia.

Methods

This is a cluster randomised trial set in a rural district in Ethiopia, with sub-district as the unit of randomisa

SUBMITTER: Asher L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4919867 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature