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Table 1 The Descriptive Characteristics of Studies

From: Psychosocial family interventions for relatives of people living with psychotic disorders in the Arab world: systematic review

Study

Country

Aim

Sample size

Study design

Intervention/s

Main outcomes

Rami, et al. (2018) [42]

Egypt

to assess the effectiveness of patient and caregiver schizophrenia psycho-education program and its impact on improvement of psychopathology and quality of life (QoL)

Intervention: 30 patients with their caregivers

Controls: 30 patients with their caregivers

Randomized, controlled, prospective intervention study

Culturally Sensitive Behavioral Family Psycho-Educational Program (BFPEP)

1- the rate of improvement of clinical variables including social functions

2- the adherence to medications

3- the quality of life of the patients

Hasan, et al. (2014) [43]

Jordan

to investigate the effectiveness of psychoeducational intervention delivered via a printed booklet on people diagnosed with schizophrenia and their primary caregivers’ outcomes

Interventions:58 dyads of patients and their caregivers

Controls: 63 dyads of patients and their caregivers

a single blind RCT

Pycho-education by booklet

1- knowledge of schizophrenia

2- schizophrenia symptoms

3- Family Burden of Care

4- quality of life of caregivers

Al-Hadi Hsan, et al. (2017) [47]

Jordan

to explore potential processes underpinning any observed effect received from psychoeducational intervention via booklet in (Hasan et al., 2015)

8 patients and 9 caregivers

a qualitative process evaluation was undertaken, using audio-recorded face-to-face semi-structured interviews

Pycho-education by booklet

1- acceptance

Soliman, et al. (2018) [45]

Egypt

to assess the effectiveness of patient and caregiver schizophrenia psycho-education program and its impact on improvement of psychopathology and quality of life (QoL)

Intervention:

58 patients with their caregivers

Controls:

58 patients with their caregivers

non- randomized control trial

Psycho-education

1- severity of symptoms

2- quality of life

El-Shafei, et al. (2008) [46]

Egypt

to establish a pilot study to examine the effect of family psycho-education and counselling on the outcome of schizophrenia especially regarding medication compliance, social functioning, clinical condition, relapse and hospitalizations

Interventions:

15 patients with their caregivers

Controls:

15 patients with their caregivers

non- randomized control trial

Family psycho-education and counselling

1- the level of social functioning

2- medication compliance

3- clinical condition

Ahmed E & Ghaith H (2018) [44]

Egypt

to investigate the effect of psycho-educational program on perception of burden and attitudes toward mental illness among caregivers of patients with schizophrenia

Experimental group (25 caregivers)

Control group (25 caregivers)

A quasi-experimental design

Psycho-education

1- caregiver burden

2- attitudes toward mental illness