Family psychoeducation for chronic major depression

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24593499
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: Nagoya City University
• Principal Investigator: Katsuki Fujika 名古屋市立大学, 看護学部, 教授 (30361893)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: うつ病 / 家族心理教育 / ＲＣＴ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We performed a randomized controlled trial to examine the effectiveness of multifamily psychoeducation in improving the mental status including depression of families of patients with chronic MDD. Forty nine participants were randomly allocated to one of the two groups either the multifamily psychoeducational intervention group or control group. The primary outcome was family members’ mental status including depression measured by k6 at 16 weeks after randomization.
With regard to primary outcome, there was no significant difference between intervention group and control group. But, in the secondary outcomes as an exploratory examinations, in the multifamily psychoeducational group, depressive symptoms of family members at 8 weeks were more improve than the control group. Moreover, some family functioning at several evaluation points were better than the control group.

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