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Development and Evaluation of a Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Behavioural Workshop for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2018

Izabela Nowak*
Affiliation:
First Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego 9, 02–957 Warsaw, Poland
Piotr Świtaj
Affiliation:
First Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego 9, 02–957 Warsaw, Poland
Carla Sabariego
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, IBE, Chair for Public Health and Health Services Research, Research Unit for Biopsychosocial Health, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany
Cornelia Oberhauser
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, IBE, Chair for Public Health and Health Services Research, Research Unit for Biopsychosocial Health, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany
Marta Anczewska
Affiliation:
First Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego 9, 02–957 Warsaw, Poland
*
Correspondence to Izabela Nowak, First Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego 9, 02–957 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Background: There is a need to develop culturally adapted interventions that support the personal recovery and real-world functioning of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Aims: This study reports on the development and evaluation of a culturally adapted, recovery-oriented, cognitive behavioural workshop for service users with schizophrenia. Method: The feasibility and acceptability were assessed, as were changes over time in personal recovery and psychosocial functioning (primary outcomes) along with psychopathology and health-related behaviours (secondary outcomes), using multi-level modelling. It was also assessed whether personal recovery predicts psychosocial functioning. Results: The workshop was feasible and was received favourably. Participants improved over time regarding confidence and hope, feeling less dominated by symptoms, psychosocial functioning, and psychopathology. Personal recovery predicted decreased psychosocial difficulties. Conclusions: The workshop is a promising intervention. It shows potential in terms of both improving personal recovery as well as real-life functioning of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Further workshop evaluation in a randomized controlled study is required.

Type
Brief Clinical Report
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2018 

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