caa a22 4500 388073357 CHVBK 20180307125154.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0790966700005395 doi S0790966700005395 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0790966700005395 An assessment of the psychoeducational needs of long-term psychiatric patients [Elektronische Daten] [Pat Gibbons, Grace Hogan, Sheila McGauran] Objectives: We aimed to identify which illness related topics were of most interest to chronic psychiatric patients in our catchment area service, and to obtain a baseline measure of the amount of knowledge which patients with schizophrenia had about their illness. Method: Patients attending for a minimum of one year were recruited from the outpatient clinic and day centre. Participants completed three instruments: a brief questionnaire which asked about the details of their diagnosis and drug treatment regimen, the ‘Educational Needs Questionnaire' (ENQ), and a modified form of the ‘Understanding Schizophrenia Scale' (USS). Results: Forty-seven patients with a chronic psychotic illness participated in the study. Despite having attended the service for an average of 14 years, the majority of patients were unable to correctly identify their diagnosis. Most patients were able to name the drugs which they had been prescribed; but were not able to describe the dosage of these drugs. According to the ENQ results, patients expressed most interest in learning about general aspects of their illness, such as ‘how to cope with stress', and less in how to manage specific illness related symptoms. Similarly, schizophrenia patients were found to know more about general aspects of their illness, such as rehabilitation and non-medical aspects of treatment, than about medication. Conclusion: Chronic psychiatric patients, especially those with schizophrenia, have very limited knowledge of their illness and its treatment. The focus of psychoeducation should be extended from insight and compliance to include broader ‘quality of life' issues which appear to be of more concern to patients themselves. Patient participation in psychoeducation can thus be improved by including topics identified by such instruments as the ENQ. It is encouraging that cognitive deficits and negative symptomatology do not seem to prevent long-term psychiatric patients from benefiting from such inputs. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Psychoeducation nationallicence Chronic psychosis nationallicence Outcome nationallicence Gibbons Pat Departamento de Investigaciun, La Universidad Tecnolugica, San Salvador, El Salvador Hogan Grace Department of Psychology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland McGauran Sheila The Mental Health Centre, Kilcock, Co. Kildare, Ireland aut Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 16/3(1999-09), 104-108 0790-9667 16:3<104 1999 16 IPM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700005395 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700005395 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gibbons Pat Departamento de Investigaciun, La Universidad Tecnolugica, San Salvador, El Salvador NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hogan Grace Department of Psychology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McGauran Sheila The Mental Health Centre, Kilcock, Co. Kildare, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 16/3(1999-09), 104-108 0790-9667 16:3<104 1999 16 IPM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge