Journal article

Psychoeducational Group Intervention for Adolescents with Psychosis and Their Families: A Two-Year Follow-Up

A Calvo, M Moreno, A Ruiz-Sancho, M Rapado-Castro, C Moreno, T Sánchez-Gutiérrez, C Arango, M Mayoral

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Published : 2015

Abstract

Objective To investigate whether the beneficial effects of a structured, psychoeducational, parallel-group program for adolescents with early-onset psychosis and their families observed immediately after the intervention were maintained 2 years later. Method The present study examines the longitudinal efficacy of a randomized controlled trial based on a psychoeducational, problem-solving, structured group intervention for adolescents with early-onset psychosis and their families (PE) and compares it with that of a nonstructured group intervention (NS) after a 2-year follow-up. We analyzed whether the differences between PE and NS found after the intervention persisted 2 years later. Intergro..

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Awarded by Fundación Alicia Koplowitz


Funding Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, CIBERSAM, the Madrid Regional Government (S2010/BMD-2422 AGES), and the European Union Structural Funds and European Union Seventh Framework Program under grant agreements FP7-HEALTH-2009-2.2.1-2-241909 (Project EU-GEI), FP7-HEALTH-2009-2 2 1-3-242114 (Project OPTIMISE), FP7-HEALTH-2013-2 2.1-2-603196 (Project PSYSCAN), and FP7-HEALTH-2013-2.2.1-2-602478 (Project METSY). The study was also supported by Fundacion Alicia Koplowitz and Fundacion Mutua Madrilena.