Original title: EFFECTIVENESS OF A NURSE-LED DIGITAL SELF-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME ON ILLNESS AWARENESS, COPING SKILLS, MEDICATION ADHERENCE, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONING AMONG PERSONS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA IN SELECTED PSYCHIATRIC SETTINGS OF MADHYA PRADESH
Nurses gave a digital self-management programme to 20 clinically stable people with schizophrenia. It covered understanding the illness, tracking symptoms, managing medication, coping with stress, and building communication and problem-solving skills. The researchers measured four areas before and after the programme. Scores rose in all four, but without a comparison group, the study cannot show that the programme caused the changes.
Imagine learning a new way to organize your daily chores. You note how things are going, try the new routine, and then check again. If the chores go more smoothly afterward, that is encouraging, but without comparing your routine to someone who did not change theirs, you cannot be sure the new plan caused the improvement. In this paper, the new routine is the nurse-led digital programme, and the before-and-after checks are the participants’ measured scores.
People with schizophrenia may need support with understanding their illness, coping, taking medication, and daily life beyond routine appointments. A digital programme led by nurses could provide structured support, though this small study cannot show whether it works better than other care.
The study included only 20 purposively selected participants in selected psychiatric settings and had no control group, so it cannot establish that the programme caused the score increases. The abstract gives no follow-up results, and says larger controlled studies with longer follow-up are needed to determine whether benefits are sustained.
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EFFECTIVENESS OF A NURSE-LED DIGITAL SELF-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME ON ILLNESS AWARENESS, COPING SKILLS, MEDICATION ADHERENCE, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONING AMONG PERSONS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA IN SELECTED PSYCHIATRIC SETTINGS OF MADHYA PRADESH — Banupriya E — INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING AND MEDICAL SCIENCE — doi:10.22159/prl.ijnms.v15i06.2574
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