TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Pilot study of a video-based educational program to reduce family violence for parents of adult children with schizophrenia
JO  - Psychiatric quarterly
A1  - Kageyama, Masako
A1  - Yokoyama, Keiko
A1  - Horiai, Yuichiro
A1  - Solomon, Phyllis
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This pilot study evaluated a video-based educational program for improving communication skills and reducing family violence between parents and their adult children with schizophrenia. We used a one group pretest-posttest design. The program included a main 90-min video and six stories, each 20-30 min long. We made assessments at baseline and program completion (three months after baseline). Sixty-six parent participants completed the intervention. The average frequency of acts of family violence significantly decreased from 11.4 (SD = 26.2) at pretest to 5.1 (SD = 13.2) at posttest (p = 0.016). Our findings showed significant improvements regarding expressed emotion, psychological distress, family empowerment, and hope, demonstrating preliminary positive results for this video-based educational program. The program was shown to be feasible for support/educational groups of family members of adults with mental disorders to deliver and may also be useful for practitioner-led educational groups for families in public health centers or medical settings to offer.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-2720
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11126-020-09717-6
ID  - ref1
ER  -