NCT05304780

Needs-tailored Nurse-led Recovery Program for Community-dwelling People With Schizophrenia

Effectiveness of a Needs-tailored Nurse-led Recovery Program for Community-dwelling People With Schizophrenia: A Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 164 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Meeting people's needs is positively correlated with their recovery. However, recovery services rarely include nurse-led programs tailored to the needs of these people. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a new needs-tailored recovery program by using a cluster-randomized controlled trial design.

Detailed description

First year, investigators used the pilot study to test the needs tailored recovery program feasibility, acceptability and preliminary usefulness of the needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program. In the second year, based on the findings of the pilot study, a cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program in two psychiatric centers in northern Taiwan. The treatment group receive the needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program by their home-care nurses over 6 months. The control group receive the usual community psychiatric care only. Data were collected before the intervention, after the intervention, and at a follow-up session three months after the end of the intervention period. The outcomes were recovery, needs, hope, empowerment, psychotic symptoms, and medication adherence. The investigators used repeated measures ANOVA tests to examine the effect of the group × time interaction.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Recovery
• Medication Adherence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program	The needs-tailored nurse-led recovery program were divided into five major stages of care, which were build partnership, conduct integrated needs assessment, set needs-based recovery goals and provide empowerment-oriented care, conduct continuous monitoring of goals, and conduct effectiveness evaluations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-15
• Primary completion: 2021-12-31
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2022-03-31
• Last updated: 2024-01-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan