The efficacy of an integrated treatment in comparison with treatment as usual in a group of youths with first-episode psychosis

Family and Patient Psychoeducation for Severe Mental Disorder in Iran: A Review

“…Fourteen studies included no information on patients’ gender (16, 18-23, 25, 34, 35, 49, 50, 66, 69-71, 78, 79) From the 34 remaining studies, 27 included only male patients or the majority of patients were male (13-15, 17, 26-29, 31-33, 37-48, 55, 57, 58, 61, 62, 64, 65, 67, 68, 74, 76). The number of female patients was higher than or equal to male patients in seven studies (36, 51, 53, 54, 56, 59, 60, 72, 75).…”

“…The intervention used for the control group or the other arm of the study varied in different studies. It was treatment as usual in 31 studies (18-21, 25, 27-29, 34-37, 39-43, 45, 46, 49-51, 53-58, 61, 62, 65-67, 70-75, 78, 79), active intervention in four studies (22, 23, 26, 31, 32, 59, 60), and both treatment as usual and active intervention in five studies (38, 44, 47, 48, 64, 68). Seven studies had no control group (13, 15-17, 33, 69, 76), and one study had both control and placebo groups (14).…”

“…Diagnosis of participants was SMD in 13 studies (13, 17, 27-29, 33, 40, 41, 47, 48, 55, 57, 61, 62, 64, 65, 68, 76), schizophrenia in 23 studies (14-16, 18-20, 31-33, 35-39, 42-46, 53, 54, 58-60, 66, 67, 71, 74, 78), and bipolar disorder in 11 studies (21, 25, 26, 34, 49, 50, 56, 69, 70, 74, 75, 79). First episode psychosis was included in 3 studies (22, 23, 33, 51). Two studies included child and adolescent patients (51, 70).…”

“…First episode psychosis was included in 3 studies (22, 23, 33, 51). Two studies included child and adolescent patients (51, 70). Overall, 34 studies included a total of 3291 patients (43.9 SMD; 22.4% schizophrenia; 19.7% bipolar disorder, and 2% first episode psychosis).…”

“…Eleven studies used a structured manual for psychoeducation (22, 23, 27-29, 33, 47, 48, 51, 57, 61, 62, 70, 72, 76, 79), 4 did not provide any information about the content of psychoeducational intervention (14, 17-20, 64), and the rest described the content of sessions. Four studies only provided written information for educational purposes (25, 31, 32, 64, 68).…”