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A Controlled Evaluation of Psychoeducational Family Intervention in a Rural Chinese Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mengze Xiang ,
Maosheng Ran  and
Sigan Li
Mengze Xiang*
Affiliation:
West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China
Maosheng Ran
Affiliation:
West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China
Sigan Li
Affiliation:
Xinjin Mental Hospital, Chengdu, China
*
Professor Mengze Xiang, Department of Psychiatry, West China University of Medical Sciences, Xiaoxue Lu No. 7, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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Abstract

Background

The shortage of mental health care in rural China might be tackled by community care. This study tests the hypothesis that family intervention increases patients' treatment compliance, which is crucial in community care.

Method

A cohort of psychiatric patients were randomly selected to a controlled trial for four months. Compliance rates, clinical and social outcomes were measured double-blindly.

Results

The compliance rate was increased significantly in the trial group, and they had better clinical and social outcomes.

Conclusions

Family intervention is an effective method of improving treatment compliance and should be an important part of community mental health care.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 165 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 544 - 548
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994 

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