title: Effect of a structured educational intervention on explanatory models of relatives of patients with schizophrenia: randomised controlled trial.
abstract: We examined the effect of a structured educational programme on explanatory models of illness among the relatives of people with schizophrenia, in a randomised controlled trial. Participants were assessed at baseline (n=100) and after 2 weeks (n=75) using a vignette from the Short Explanatory Model Interview. There was a reduction in non-biomedical causal explanatory models at follow-up among those who had completed the structured educational programme compared with the control group. There was no significant difference in non-biomedical treatment explanatory models between the two groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632002, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Saravanan
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Karunakaran
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Manoranjitham
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ezhilarasu
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Jacob
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D003906:Developing Countries; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy