NCT03632278

Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program for Schizophrenia

The Effectiveness of a Mindfulness Psychoeducation Program on Emotional Regulation for People With Schizophrenia: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 58 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study is the first pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) to explore the feasibility and efficacy of Mindfulness-based psychoeducation in emotion regulation and related depressive and anxiety symptoms in people with schizophrenia.

Detailed description

There is increasing evidence to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of mindfulness-based psychoeducation programme (MBPP) for Chinese people with schizophrenia. A single-blind, multi-site, pragmatic randomised controlled trial conducted in Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan with 300 participants consistently demonstrated significant improvement in regard to insight of illness, functioning, mental state and the length of re-hospitalisations when compared with conventional psychoeducation and Treatment As Usual (TAU) groups (Chien, 2017). The study hypothesises that: 1. Participants receiving MBPP will decrease their use of rumination and expressive suppression, and increase the use of cognitive reappraisal compared to a control group after completion of the intervention. 2. Participants receiving MBPP attain a reduction in depressive/anxiety symptoms compared to a control group after completion of the intervention. 3. These effects are expected to be maintained through 3-month follow up with regular self-practice.

Conditions

• Schizophreniform Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness psychoeducation Programme	A MBPP will be conducted for 2 hours for each session, one a week for eight weeks. The protocol has been developed based on the model of mindfulness-based stress reduction proposed by Kabat-Zinn (1994) and Tong et al. (2015), and the psychoeducation programmes by Chien and Lee, and Lehman and colleagues (Chien \& Lee, 2010; Kabat-Zinn et al., 1992; Lehman et al., 2004; Tong et al., 2015). The programme will be integration of mindfulness and psychoeducation to cultivate the client's mindfulness attitude. The clients will learn to apply the mindfulness in illness management and daily difficulties.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-03
• Primary completion: 2019-07-30
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2018-08-15
• Last updated: 2018-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong