Brief cognitive behaviour therapy improved insight and reduced negative symptoms and readmissions in schizophrenia
Q In patients with schizophrenia, does brief cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) delivered by mental health nurses reduce symptoms, recovery time, and readmissions at 1 year?
METHODS
Design:
randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
{concealed}.*
Blinding:
blinded {data collectors}.*
Follow up period:
1 year.
Setting:
6 sites in the UK.
Patients:
422 patients {18–65 years of age}† {mean age 40 y, 77% men}† with an ICD-10 diagnosis of schizophrenia who were receiving treatment from secondary care services. Patients were excluded if they were in the process of active relapse or had a primary diagnosis of substance or alcohol dependence, organic brain disease, or severe learning disability.
Intervention:
CBT {n = 257}† or usual care as organised by a community key worker, with an offer of CBT at the end of the study period {n = 165}.† CBT was manual-based and …
