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Effect of a structured educational intervention on explanatory models of relatives of patients with schizophrenia:
S Das1, B Saravanan, K P Karunakaran
1Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632002, India.
Abstract:
We examined the effect of a structured educational programme on explanatory models of illness among the relatives of people with schizophrenia, in a randomised controlled trial. Participants were assessed at baseline (n=100) and after 2 weeks (n=75) using a vignette from the Short Explanatory Model Interview. There was a reduction in non-biomedical causal explanatory models at follow-up among those who had completed the structured educational programme compared with the control group. There was no significant difference in non-biomedical treatment explanatory models between the two groups.
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