Effectiveness of psychoeducational interventions for family carers of people with psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

The difficulties carers describe in accessing interventions are due in part to a lack of funding or resources, unmet training needs of the workforce, and service priorities centred on patients.

“in part, due to a lack of funding or resources, unmet training needs of the workforce, and service priorities which are centred on patients (Sin et al., 2017;Sin, Gillard, et al., 2016;Sin, Henderson, Spain, Gamble, et al., 2016).”

Training family/informal supporters is one of the suggested solutions to their burden.

“Training family/informal supporters is one of the suggested solutions to their burden 321,322 .”

With training, supporters' morbidities, perceived burden, and negative expressed emotion have been found to decrease.

“With training, supporters' morbidities, perceived burden, and negative expressed emotion have been found to decrease 322 .”

Psychoeducational interventions, especially those delivered in a group format, are widely recommended and practiced around the world.

“Consequently, psychoeducational interventions, especially those delivered in a group format, as a discrete treatment on their own or augmenting other treatments (eg, family intervention or mutual support programs) are widely recommended and practiced around the world [14,18,20].”

Poor well-being may hamper carers' caregiving capacity.

“Research evidence also suggests that poor well-being may hamper carers’ caregiving capacity.”

Improved knowledge about coping strategies and available resources can lead to a more positive appraisal of caregiving experiences and carers' perceived self-efficacy in coping with demands.

“Improved knowledge about coping strategies and available resources can lead to a more positive appraisal of their caregiving experiences and carers’ perceived self-efficacy in coping with the demands [14,24].”

Caring demands can jeopardize carers' well-being.

“Conversely, it is well established that caring demands can jeopardize carers’ well-being [2,13,14].”

Carers who feel they are not supported and lack resources to cope are less likely to engage in caring for their loved ones or more likely to exhibit critical or hostile behavior toward the cared-for individuals.

“Carers who feel they are not supported and lack resources (eg, information about the illness condition and related management issues) to cope are less likely to engage in caring for their loved ones or more likely to exhibit critical or hostile behavior toward the cared-for individuals, albeit unintentionally [13,14,17].”

With the benefits of access, facilitation, and delivery completely through the internet, our product has the potential to provide an evidence-based psychoeducational intervention with its key ingredients.

“With the benefits of access, facilitation, and delivery completely through the internet, our product has the potential to provide an evidence-based psychoeducational intervention with its key ingredients [14,19].”