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| ID24593499 | Other Grant/Funding Number | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research |
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The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of brief multifamily psychoeducation to relieve the psychological distress of families of patients with chronic major depression and to improve their family functioning.
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a long-lasting illness with significant effects on the patient's family, social life, and work life. Treatment failure results in a low recovery rate and frequent relapses.
Relatives of patients with MDD are fraught with heavy psychosocial burden and show increased rates of depression and anxiety. Among relatives of patients with MDD, the patient's behavior and mood disturbance and relative's emotional distress were associated with the relatives' burden.
Family psychoeducation is recognized as part of the optimal treatment for patients with psychotic disorder. This intervention has been shown to reduce the rates of relapse and hospitalization among individuals with psychotic disorders and is recognized as an evidenced-based treatment for psychotic disorder. Several randomized controlled trials have found that family psychoeducation is effective in enhancing the course of bipolar disorder. However, there are few studies on psychoeducation of families of patients with MDD.
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of brief multifamily psychoeducation to relieve the psychological distress of families of patients with chronic major depression and to improve their family functioning, in a randomized controlled trial.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Family psychoeducation plus TAU | Active Comparator | Family psychoeducational therapy in addition to treatment as usual for the patients. |
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| Treatment as usual(TAU) | Placebo Comparator | Treatment as usual administered by physician and counseling administered by nurse. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Family psychoeducation | Behavioral | Family psychoeducational therapy every two weeks for six weeks in addition to treatment as usual administered by physicians |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| The change of total score of K6 of family members | The K6 questionnaire is a six-item self-report questionnaire that was developed to screen for DSM-IV depressive and anxiety disorder. | The base line, 8, 16 and 32 |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| The change of total score of Family Attitude Scale(FAS) of family members | The Family Attitude Scale(FAS) is a 30-item self report inventory and measures families' Expressed Emotion(EE). | The base line, 8, 16 and 32 |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Fujika Katsuki, Dr | Nagoya City University, School of Nursing | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Fujika Katsuki | Nagoya | Aichi-ken | 467-8601 | Japan |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 25118129 | Background | Katsuki F, Takeuchi H, Watanabe N, Shiraishi N, Maeda T, Kubota Y, Suzuki M, Yamada A, Akechi T. Multifamily psychoeducation for improvement of mental health among relatives of patients with major depressive disorder lasting more than one year: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2014 Aug 12;15:320. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-320. | |
| 29929495 |
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| ID | Term |
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| D003865 | Depressive Disorder, Major |
| ID | Term |
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| D003866 | Depressive Disorder |
| D019964 | Mood Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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| Katsuki F, Takeuchi H, Inagaki T, Maeda T, Kubota Y, Shiraishi N, Tabuse H, Kato T, Yamada A, Watanabe N, Akechi T, Furukawa TA. Brief multifamily Psychoeducation for family members of patients with chronic major depression: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry. 2018 Jun 22;18(1):207. doi: 10.1186/s12888-018-1788-6. |