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Adults who are admitted to an inpatient setting with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia are offered family intervention.
Family intervention aims to improve support and resilience and enhance the quality of communication and problem solving with the family, caregivers, and personal supports of a person with schizophrenia. It also seeks to provide insight into the person’s condition and the relevant signs and symptoms to improve family members’ ability to anticipate and help reduce the risk of relapse.
Interventions should be offered to your family, caregivers, and personal supports to help them understand schizophrenia and its signs and symptoms. This will allow them to better support you, help you cope, and help to prevent relapse.
Offer family intervention to people with schizophrenia.
Through adequately resourced systems and services, ensure that health care providers in hospitals can offer family intervention to people with schizophrenia.
Percentage of adults admitted to hospital with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia who receive family intervention
Denominator: total number of adults admitted to an inpatient setting with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia (excludes those without a family and those who do not consent to family involvement)
Numerator: number of people in the denominator who:
Receive family intervention during the inpatient stay or
Have family intervention arranged in their discharge plan
Data source: local data collection
Availability of in-hospital family intervention programs or referral to community-based family intervention programs for adults with schizophrenia and their family members
This term includes members of a person’s family, personal supports, and caregivers who live with or are in close contact with the adult with schizophrenia
This intervention should:
Include at least 10 planned sessions (these may be part of the inpatient setting; planning for subsequent sessions should be part of the discharge planning)
Be delivered by an appropriately trained practitioner
Be sensitive to the cultural and spiritual characteristics of the individual and their family
Take account of the whole family’s preference for either single-family intervention or multifamily groupintervention
Consider the relationship between the family and the person with schizophrenia
Involve communication skills, problem solving, and education
Have reasons discussed and documented when a patient chooses not to involve their family
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