title: [Efficacy of family intervention in management of schizophrenic patients in China: a meta-analysis].
abstract: To assess the efficacy of family intervention in management of schizophrenic patients in China.
  
  
  
  Chinese databases CNKI, VIP, WANFANG, CBM and English databases OVID Medline, Science Direct, Web of science, EBSCO were searched systematically from inception to January 2015. Quantitative and empirical studies on the outcomes of social disability screening scale (SDSS), brief psychiatric rating scale (BPRS) and positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) of family intervention for Chinese schizophrenic patients were selected. The effect size was derived from the standardized mean difference (SMD), and meta-analysis was conducted to compare effects of family intervention by intervention types, time of intervention, durations of illness and severity of schizophrenia.
  
  
  
  The study included 57 articles that met inclusion criteria. SDSS and PANSS scores revealed that the effect was positively associated with the length of intervention time (P<0.0001, P=0.0025); the effect of single family intervention was better than that of combined single and multiple family intervention (P<0.0001, P=0.0131); the effect was better for patients with severe conditions than those with less severe conditions (P<0.0001, P=0.0280). The SDSS showed that the effect was better for patients with shorter disease duration (P<0.0001).
  
  
  
  The results suggest that the long single family intervention would benefit to schizophrenic patients, particularly for severe patients with short disease duration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Jing-huan
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: An
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;West China Research Center for Rural Health Development, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Yuan-yuan
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D010054:Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale; D002681:China; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*
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