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Effects of group psychoeducational psychotherapy on inpatients with chronic psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

G. Gómez-Bernal
Affiliation:
Hospital Psiquiátrico de Teruel, Unidad de Media Estancia, Teruel, Spain
F. Romero
Affiliation:
Hospital Psiquiátrico de Teruel, Unidad de Media Estancia, Teruel, Spain
S. Reboreda
Affiliation:
Hospital Psiquiátrico de Teruel, Unidad de Media Estancia, Teruel, Spain
M. Bernal
Affiliation:
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
E. Esteban
Affiliation:
Hospital Psiquiátrico de Teruel, Unidad de Media Estancia, Teruel, Spain

Abstract

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Background and aims:

The objetive of this study is to examine the efficacy of group psychoeducational therapy for inpatients with DSM-IV schizophrenia.

Methods:

Fourteen in-patients with DSM-IV schizophrenia were randomly assigned to a treatment group or a control group. Both groups received standard medication as prescribed by their treating physicians, but the treatment group also recibed a two-months course of psychoeducational psychotherapy. Outcome was evaluated using Clinical Global Impression-Schizophrenia Scale.

Results:

Patients who attended psychoeducational group showed a improvement in CGI-SCH score.

Conclusions:

The results suggest that psychoeducational psychotherapy can improve the treatment of schizophrenia.

Psychoeducational psychotherapy has no side-effects and is relatively inexpensive.

Type
Poster Session 1: Psychotherapies
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2007
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