5.3 million persons (all ages) with schizophrenia in Mainland China
CHAN LAI WAN, CeciliaProfessor
RAN M.S.Associate Professor
Challenges
Caregiving burden (Ran, Chan, Ng, Guo, & Xiang, 2015)
Destructive behavior of care recipients (Ran, Xiang, Huang, & Shan, 2001)
Limited professional service and poor medication adherence (Ran et al., 2003)
High rates of relapse and rehospitalization (Barkhof, Meijer, de Sonneville, Linszen, & de Haan, 2012)
References
Barkhof, E., Meijer, C. J., de Sonneville, L. M., Linszen, D. H., & de Haan, L. (2012). Interventions to improve adherence to antipsychotic medication in patients with schizophrenia–a review of the past decade. European Psychiatry, 27(1), 9-18.
Ran, M.-S., Chan, C.-W., Ng, S.-M., Guo, L.-T., & Xiang, M.-Z. (2015). The effectiveness of psychoeducational family intervention for patients with schizophrenia in a 14-year follow-up study in a Chinese rural area. Psychological medicine, 45(10), 2197-2204.
Ran, M.-S., Xiang, M.-Z., Chan, C. L.-W., Leff, J., Simpson, P., Huang, M.-S., . . . Li, S.-G. (2003). Effectiveness of psychoeducational intervention for rural Chinese families experiencing schizophrenia. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 38(2), 69-75.
Ran, M.-S., Xiang, M., Huang, M., & Shan, Y. (2001). Natural course of schizophrenia: 2-year follow-up study in a rural Chinese community. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 178(2), 154-158.
a. Psychoeducational family intervention
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