Patient and relative education in community psychiatry: a randomized controlled trial regarding its effectiveness
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologyPublished 25 June 1999
Lars Merinder, Anne Grethe Viuff, Helle Laugesen, Karin Clemmensen, S. Misfelt, B. Espensen
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A short patient and relative education programme seems to be able to influence knowledge and some aspects of satisfaction, but does not seem to be sufficient to influence important variables such as relapse, compliance, psychopathology, insight or psychosocial functioning.
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A short patient and relative education programme seems to be able to influence knowledge and some aspects of satisfaction, but does not seem to be sufficient to influence important variables such as relapse, compliance, psychopathology, insight or psychosocial functioning.
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