The British Journal of Psychiatry (2006) 188: 286-287. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.104.007245
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SHORT REPORTS

Effect of a structured educational intervention on explanatory models of relatives of patients with schizophrenia

Randomised controlled trial

S. DAS, BSc

College of Nursing

B. SARAVANAN, DNB

Department of Psychiatry

K. P. KARUNAKARAN, Dip Nursing, S. MANORANJITHAM, MSc and P. EZHILARASU, MSc, PhD

College of Nursing

K. S. JACOB, MD, PhD

Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Correspondence: Professor K. S. Jacob, Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 002, India. Fax: +91 416 2262268; e-mail: ksjacob{at}cmcvellore.ac.in

Declaration of interest None.

We examined the effect of a structured educational programme on explanatory models of illness among the relatives of people with schizophrenia, in a randomised controlled trial. Participants were assessed at baseline (n=100) and after 2 weeks (n=75) using a vignette from the Short Explanatory Model Interview. There was a reduction in non-biomedical causal explanatory models at follow-up among those who had completed the structured educational programme compared with the control group. There was no significant difference in non-biomedical treatment explanatory models between the two groups.




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