The Mindfulness-Based Psychoeducation Program for Chinese Patients With Schizophrenia

Abstract

The findings provide evidence that the mindfulness-based education program can improve Chinese schizophrenia sufferers' psychosocial functioning and reduce their illness relapse.

The effectiveness of mindfulness-based intervention for people with schizophrenia: a systematic review

“…About 1,250 records were removed after screening the relevance of article titles and abstracts to the topic of the review. The full texts of the remaining 21 studies were reviewed and finally 15 studies were excluded after full review, leaving behind only six studies [17][18][19][20][21][22] to be included for this review. Details of the searching process are shown in Figure 1.…”

“…In the six randomized controlled studies, two were pre-and post-test design 20,21 and the other studies (n= 4) [17][18][19]22 used repeated-measures design with varying follow-up periods from 6 months 17 to 2 years 22 .…”

“…Two studies had conducted in people with recent-onset psychosis (i.e., duration of illness < 5 years) 18,19 . One multicenter controlled trial targeted patients with distressing residual psychotic symptoms 17 .…”

“…The studies were conducted in the U.S., U.K., Spain, and Hong Kong and three of them were multicenter trials [17][18][19] . Four studies focused on patients in community mental health settings, while 2 studies conducted in outpatient clinics [18][19] .…”

Schizophrenia: An Exploration of an Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Compassion‐based Group Intervention

“…Langer et al (2012) found that no significant effects were observed in any measure between the groups, except in mindfulness response to stressful thoughts and images within the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy group (eight individual sessions). Chien and Lee (2013) found that Mindfulness-based Psychoeducation (MBP-12 group sessions) was associated with significant change in symptom sever-ity, illness insight, and length of re-hospitalisation at post-intervention, while functioning and number of re-hospitalisations improved significantly only at the 18-month follow-up. Chien and Thompson (2014) found that MBP was associated with greater improvement in insight and treatment attitudes, functioning, psychiatric symptoms, and duration of hospital readmissions.…”