Table 1 The characteristics of included articles
Row | Articles | Design | City | Gender of samples | Number of samples | Follow-up (month) | Intervention | Type of intervention | Tools* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intervention group 1 | Intervention group 2 | Control | |||||||||
1. | Moradi (2017) [13] | RCT | Tehran | Women & Men | 60 | 60 | 60 | 20 | Telephone follow-up or home visit, in addition to caregivers’ education and training of social skills | Community-based intervention | PANSS, YMRS, HDRS, CGI, GAF, CSQ, WHOQOL BREF |
2. | Barekatan (2013) [11] | RCT | Isfahan | Women & Men | 61 | - | 62 | 12 | Follow-up phone calls, home visits, and psychoeducation for families | Community-based intervention | YMRS, HDRS, PANSS, CGI, GAF, WHO-QOL |
3. | Malakouti.1(2016) [12] | RCT | Tehran | Women & Men | 60 | 61 | 61 | 12 | Home visit & telephone follow up | Community-based intervention | KELS, KQC, FEIS, GHQ-28, CQS, PANSS, YMRS, burden |
4. | Sharifi (2012) [14] | RCT | Tehran | Women & Men | 66 | - | 64 | 12 | Home visit | Community-based intervention | PANSS, YMRS, GAF, whoqol, CSQ |
5. | Sadeghi Babokani (2020) [15] | Quasi-experimental | Isfahan | Women | 15 | 15 | 15 | 0 | Behavioral Activation & Psychosocial Rehabilitation | Psychological intervention | MOCA |
6. | Malakouti.2 (2009) [16] | RCT | Tehran | Women & Men | 117 | - | - | 12 | Home visit case management two groups (family1 and health worker2) | Community-based intervention | GHQ, KELS, FEIS |
7. | Mohebi (2017) [17] | RCT | Tehran | Men | 20 | - | 20 | 3 | Community re-entry program | Community-based intervention | MARS |
8. | Akbari (2017) [18] | Quasi-experimental | Sanandaj | Men | 15 | - | 15 | 0 | Psychosocial Rehabilitation (12 weeks) | Psychological intervention | ANSQ—DSS |
9. | Fayyazi Bordbar (2020) [19] | Quasi-experimental | Mashhad | Women & Men | 29 | - | 28 | 12 | A psycho-educational training session | Psychological intervention | The number of psychiatric visits, relapse status, number of re-hospitalizations, and time to relapse |
10. | Ahmadi (2020) [20] | Quasi-experimental | Tehran | Men | 15 | - | 15 | 6 | Family Psychological Training | Psychological intervention | PANSS |
11. | Malakouti.3 (2015) [21] | RCT | Tehran | Women & Men | 46 | 57 | 57 | 12 | The clients and their caregivers received monthly home visits (education and treatment supervision) | Community-based intervention | KELS, KQC, FEIS, GHQ-28, CQS, PANSS, YMRS |
12. | Shahmiri (2014) [22] | Quasi-experimental | Tehran | Men | 10 | - | 10 | 0 | The sub-programs of social living skills and it is independent | Psychological intervention | MESS |
13. | Mohammadzadeh (2012) [23] | RCT | Tehran | Men | 12 | - | 12 | 0 | Community Re-entry Program (CRM) | Community-based intervention | PANSS |
14. | Fallahi-Khoshknab (2007) [24] | RCT | Tehran | Men | 24 | - | 24 | 3 | Home visit (for 3 month) | Community-based intervention | BPRS |
15. | Jamshidi (2017) [25] | Quasi-experimental | Hamedan | Women & Men | 10 | - | 10 | 0 | Community re-entry program | Community-based intervention | ACIS, PANSS |
16. | Dashtbozorgi (2009) [26] | RCT | Ahvaz | Women & Men | 17 | - | 14 | 3 | Psychoeducation sessions (6 weeks) | Psychological intervention | MMFQ, HRSD, BRMS, GAF |
17. | Hojjati-Abed (2010) [27] | Quasi experimental | Tehran | Women & Men | 24 | - | 50 | 0 | Psychosocial occupational therapy interventions | Community-based intervention | WQOLCQ |