The effectiveness of family psycho-educational program in reducing expressed emotion on schizophrenic patient's caregivers

The aim of this clinical trial study (IRCT2016081729402N1) is explored the effectiveness of familial psycho-educational program in inpatients suffering from schizophrenia in reducing caregivers’ expressed emotion.
In this clinical trial, we included 49 people from the family of schizophrenic inpatients, who were admitted to Shiraz Psychiatric Hospital. They were randomly divided into intervention (n=24) and control (n=25) groups. Only, in the experimental group, a psycho-educational program was arranged for their caregivers. At baseline, immediately, post-intervention and two month later, all participants completed Family Questionnaire (FQ).
According to the results of the analysis of variance for repeated measures by SPSS software V.20: both groups showed decrease in post-test in FQ (Wilk's Lambda=.031; F=339.859; p=0.0001; Partial Eta Squared=.969). Also, there was a significant difference among groups (F=38.785; p=0.0001; Effect Size=0.45).
Our research findings indicate that using the family psycho-educational program, can decrease the expressed emotion on schizophrenic inpatient's caregivers.