NCT01172106

Impact of Family Psychoeducation on Psychosis

The Role of Psychoeducation on Perceived Social Support of Postpartum Others With a Psychotic Illness

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Makerere University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 13 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There is currently no clear involvement of families/caregivers in the care for postpartum mothers that develop postpartum psychosis. The lack of knowledge on causes of postpartum psychosis may influence the nature of perceived social support that mothers receive from caregivers. It is hoped that the provision of a culturally adapted version of family psychoeducation will bridge the knowledge gap and provide the much needed information. We therefore hypothesized that the involvement of a family member of a postpartum mother with a psychotic illness in a weekly session of family psychoeducation.

Detailed description

Postpartum psychosis causes distress to the mother, baby, spouse and other primary caregivers. This is especially true for Uganda where cultural beliefs for the causation of the illness place blame on supposedly the postpartum mother's promiscuity during pregnancy (COX, 1979). Cultural perceptions on the causes of postpartum psychosis may affect the nature of social support the mothers perceive from their families when they develop the illness. Other perceptions regarding postpartum psychosis in Uganda lay blame on supernatural causes like witchcraft. Family psychoeducation which sets out to inform families of the nature of the illness is called for so as to demystify the illness.

Conditions

• Postpartum Psychosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	drug compliance	Mothers and their caregivers will be encouraged to comply with the given medication
BEHAVIORAL	Encouragement of drug compliance	Mothers and their caregivers in the placebo comparator will receive an intervention of drug compliance encouragement
BEHAVIORAL	Family psychoeducation	The experimental group will receive family psychoeducation for 12 sessions

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-08-01
• Primary completion: 2010-09-01
• Completion: 2010-10-01
• First posted: 2010-07-29
• Last updated: 2010-07-29

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Uganda