The effect of a psycho‐educational programme on knowledge of illness, insight and attitudes towards medication

Abstract

This paper looks at the outcomes of a mental health education group for patients in a high secure setting. The The effect of a psychoeducational programme on knowledge of illness, insight and attitudes towards medication

Group psychoeducation for forensic and dangerous non-forensic long-term patients with schizophrenia: A pilot study

“…Positive findings were found, however, in regard to patients' awareness of their illness, and the result is consistent with the previous results of Jennings et al 18 concerning psychoeducation for mentally ill offenders. This result is encouraging because awareness of illness is an important aspect of insight, and a lack of insight is considered a common problem in relapse prevention 27 .…”

“…The results of this pilot study indicate that, in comparison with the control group, the study group's knowledge of schizophrenia increased during the intervention. This finding is consistent with the results obtained from previous psychoeducational interventions for patients with schizophrenia among non-forensic and forensic patients, indicating that, even in the context of psychoeducational groups with a quite didactic group format, improvements in understanding can be made [10][11][12]18 . The present study suggests that a certain level of knowledge gains is possible even amongst the most severely ill patients suffering from cognitive deficits and disturbances, although increase in knowledge scores was lowest among patients with the most severe psychotic symptomalogy.…”

“…A recently published meta-analysis conducted by Lincoln, Wilhelm & Nestoriuc 15 suggests, however, that psychoeducation for patients only can not be considered effective. Psychoeducation is nowadays commonly provided within forensic settings 16 , but the systematic review of structured group interventions with mentally disordered offenders made by Duncan et al 17 shows that the effectiveness of patient psychoeducation among forensic schizophrenia patients has been studied only by the naturalistic pilot study of Jennings et al 18 , who found positive a impact of brief patient group psychoeducation on knowledge, attitudes toward medication, and insight.…”

TRIP: a psycho‐educational programme in Hong Kong for people with schizophrenia

“…Second, the successful outcomes of TRIP programme suggested that the potential use of illness management in psychiatric rehabilitation should not be limited to patients in the chronic or community care phase, but could be further extended to the acute stage of illness immediately after a short period of stabilization. This fi nding was also consistent with some recent Western studies with increasing emphasis of applying psycho-education as a early intervention in acute setting (Jennings et al, 2002;Kavanagh et al, 2003). Third, the re-admission rate of participants of both the TRIP and WOT programmes were traced after their discharge for 12 months.…”

A systematic review of structured group interventions with mentally disordered offenders

“…• Problem-solving skills training (seven studies) (Jones and McColl, 1991;Donnelly and Guy, 1998;Donnelly and Scott, 1999;McMurran et al, 1999;McGuire, 2000;Fleck et al, 2001;McMurran et al, 2001b); • Anger/Aggression management (four studies) (Stermac, 1986;Grant, 1999;McMurran et al, 2001c;Hilton and Frankel, 2003); • Deliberate self-harm interventions (two studies) (Low et al, 2001;Evershed et al, 2003); • Other (seven studies) (Rice, 1983;Beck-Sander et al, 1998;Tennant and Hughes, 1998;Moore et al, 2000;Donnelly et al, 2001;Jennings et al, 2002;Hodel and West, 2003).…”