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One-year outcome of low-intensity booster sessions versus care as usual in psychosis patients after a short-term psychoeducational intervention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Ingrid Sibitz ,
Michaela Amering ,
Ralf Gössler ,
Annemarie Unger  and
Heinz Katschnig
Ingrid Sibitz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, A-1090Vienna, Austria Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Psychiatry, Vienna, Austria
Michaela Amering*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, A-1090Vienna, Austria
Ralf Gössler
Affiliation:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Psychiatry, Vienna, Austria
Annemarie Unger
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, A-1090Vienna, Austria
Heinz Katschnig
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, A-1090Vienna, Austria Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Psychiatry, Vienna, Austria
*
*Corresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 40400 3546; fax: +43 1 40400 3605. E-mail address:michaela.amering@meduniwien.ac.at (M. Amering).
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Abstract

Objective

In this study we aimed to evaluate long-term effects of a community-based, quality of life oriented psychoeducational intervention for schizophrenia with and without booster sessions.

Method

One hundred and three outpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder completed a 9-week psychoeducational programme. At the end of the programme groups were block-randomised to either an extension programme comprising monthly booster sessions for a further nine months (booster condition) or routine clinical care with no further group meetings (non-booster condition). Outcome measures were applied before and after the seminar and at 6 and 12 months.

Results

Positive effects were observed after the short-term 9-week programme with regard to symptoms, knowledge about the illness, illness concept, control convictions and quality of life. These effects were retained over the 12-month period in both conditions. The only relevant difference between the booster and the non-booster conditions concerned external control convictions.

Conclusion

Overall this 9-week programme has shown encouraging effects still present at 12 months after baseline independent of booster or non-booster conditions. Further studies are needed to explore whether a subgroup of patients, those with impaired neurocognitive and social functioning, can benefit significantly from booster sessions.

Keywords

SchizophreniaPsychoeducationQuality of lifeBooster sessionsFollow-up study

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European Psychiatry , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , May 2007 , pp. 203 - 210
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Copyright © Elsevier Masson SAS 2007

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