Study | Country | Aim | Sample size | Study design | Intervention/s | Main outcomes |
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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 |