Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Family Members After a First Psychotic Attack

Launched by SAGLIK BILIMLERI UNIVERSITESI · Oct 22, 2024

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This study is a pretest, posttest, follow-up, randomized controlled experimental study. This study will be conducted with family members of individuals diagnosed with FPA who come to the psychiatry outpatient clinic of a training and research hospital. According to the results of G-power analysis, the minimum sample size of the study was calculated as 32 (intervention 16, control 16). Personal Information Form will be applied to the individuals before randomization. The computer-aided https://www.random.org/integers/ program will be used to assign the intervention and control groups without...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Acceptance to participate in the research,
• • Being responsible for the care of an individual who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders according to DSM-5 diagnostic criteria at least six months ago and at most five years ago,
• • Living with the patient for at least one year,
• • First-degree relatives (mother, father, siblings, adult children and spouse),
• • The home environment is suitable for online interviewing (having a computer/smartphone, internet at home, the patient can be alone in the room during the session, etc.),
• • Being literate,
• • Communication is not a problem.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Refusal to participate in the research,
• • Responsible for the care of an individual diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders for less than six months or more than five years according to DSM-V diagnostic criteria,
• • Living with the patient for less than one year,
• • No first-degree relatives (mother, father, siblings, adult children and spouse),
• • The home environment is not suitable for online counseling (having a computer/smartphone, internet at home, the patient can be alone in the room during the session, etc.),
• • Illiteracy,
• • Communication problems.