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Family Involvement May Lead to Better Patient Outcomes in Psychosis Treatment - Neuroscience News

Family Involvement May Lead to Better Patient Outcomes in Psychosis Treatment - Neuroscience News

Family Involvement May Lead to Better Patient Outcomes in Psychosis Treatment - Neuroscience News
Nov 23, 2022 1 min, 34 secs

Summary: Study reveals the benefits of family involvement in treatment outcomes for those who suffer from psychosis.

According to new research from Boston Medical Center, family involvement in psychosis treatment leads to better patient outcomes.

Published in Schizophrenia Research, researchers highlight that learning to use motivational interviewing communication skills may help caregivers to decrease conflict and expressed emotion and improve treatment adherence.

The goal is not that the caregiver becomes a therapist to the individual with psychosis, but rather that they learn and use motivational interviewing based communication strategies to decrease expressed emotion and play a more effective role in helping to connect the individual with psychosis to relevant clinical services.

The results of this study showed that caregiver participants experienced large and significant improvements in caregiver well-being, caregiver self-efficacy, family conflict, and expressed emotion.

Relative to waitlist, MILO had significant effects on family conflict and expressed emotion, a trending effect on perceived stress, and no effect on parenting self-efficacy or treatment adherence.

Research shows that family involvement in psychosis treatment leads to better patient outcomes.

Interventions that involve and counsel family members may improve patient outcomes by addressing barriers to treatment adherence and lowering family expressed emotion, thereby creating a less stressful and more supportive home environment.

Learning to use motivational interviewing communication skills may help caregivers to decrease conflict and expressed emotion and improve treatment adherence.

The current study is a pilot randomized controlled trial testing the impact of “Motivational Interviewing for Loved Ones” (MILO), a brief five-hour psychoeducational intervention for caregivers, in a sample of family members of individuals with early course psychosis (N = 40)

Caregiver participants experienced large (d = 1.08–1.43) and significant improvements in caregiver wellbeing, caregiver self-efficacy, family conflict, and expressed emotion

Relative to waitlist, MILO had significant effects on family conflict and expressed emotion, a trending effect on perceived stress, and no effect on parenting self-efficacy or treatment adherence

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