2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The development of psychosocial intervention program for patients with recent-onset psychosis offered by nurses

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22792248
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Community health/Gerontological nurisng
Research Institution	Tohoku University
Principal Investigator	MITSUNAGA Norika 東北大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (30431597)
Project Period (FY)	2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	初回エピソードサイコーシス / 心理・社会的介入 / 看護師 / 再発予防 / 社会復帰
Research Abstract	We developed the psychosocial intervention program for the patients with recent-onset psychosis empowering self-care and facilitating relapse prevention and rehabilitation and examined the safety and feasibility of this. Six inpatients (mean age 24 years) with first-episode psychosis who were treated within 5 years was administered the psychosocial intervention program based on the similar one used in England in addition to treatment as usual. The program sessions were of 30 to 50 minutes' duration and were offered once or twice per week. The average number of sessions offered were 19.5, no participants experienced exacerbation due to the participation in the program or dropout and all the participants could consequently discharge. Most of the participants expressed satisfaction with the offered program.

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