Development and validation of a schizophrenia literacy scale for individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia literacy is key to early identification of schizophrenia and diminishment of stigma. This facilitates help-seeking and adherence to mental health treatment for individuals suffering from schizophrenia. However, validated measures assessing schizophrenia literacy among individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia remain limited.

Family involvement in mental healthcare practice: Perspectives of mental health nurses, patients, and caregivers.

Introduction: Family engagement in care has been advocated to promote recovery for patients with mental health conditions. Attitudes of mental health nurses toward the importance of families influence the way they partner with families in mental healthcare. However, little is known about how mental health nurses engage with families and quality of family-centered care (FCC) perceived by patients and caregivers.

Factors associated with attitudes of mental health nurses towards the importance of families in mental health nursing care.

Family involvement in mental healthcare is a key ingredient in the recovery of patients with mental illness. Research on the attitudes of mental health nurses regarding family involvement in mental healthcare remains limited. This study aimed to examine factors that affect the attitudes of mental health nurses towards the importance of family involvement in mental health nursing care.

High internalized stigma among community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia: Associations with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, personality traits and health-related quality of life.

Stigma attached to schizophrenia among patients is a global concern to mental health advocates. The extent of internalized stigma experienced by consumers with schizophrenia living in the community and its correlates have not been fully explored. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of high internalized stigma and its association with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, personality traits and aspects of health-related quality of life among community-dwelling consumers with schizophrenia.

Effectiveness of a brief family strengths-oriented therapeutic conversation intervention for patients with schizophrenia and their caregivers.

Purpose: To examine the effects of a brief family strengths-oriented therapeutic conversation (FAM-SOTC) intervention on symptom severity of patients with schizophrenia and family coping and caregiver burden for family caregivers.

Design: A quasi-experimental research design with repeated measures.

Methods: A convenience sample of 72 dyads of patient-family caregivers was recruited from randomized inpatient psychiatric rehabilitation units in a psychiatric hospital in Taiwan.

Association between Mutuality and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patient-Caregiver Dyads Living with Schizophrenia.

Background: Although caregivers are a crucial support in the recovery of patients with schizophrenia, little is known about how mutuality is related to health-related quality of life within the dyadic (patient and caregiver) context. This study aimed to investigate the dyadic relationship between mutuality and health-related quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and caregivers.

Methods: A cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted with a sample of 133 dyads of patients with schizophrenia and caregivers.

Factors influencing patient-perceived quality of care in psychiatric hospitals in Taiwan.

Patient-perceived quality of inpatient/outpatient psychiatric care remains under-researched. A cross-sectional survey with purposive sampling comprising 567 inpatients and 549 outpatients was conducted among eight psychiatric care facilities in Taiwan to examine the factors influencing patient-perceived care quality. Inpatients and outpatients perceived moderate quality of care, where "Encounter" was reported as the highest dimension.

Psychiatric morbidity and its correlates among primary family caregivers of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia in Taiwan.

Background: Caregiving for patients with schizophrenia is often challenging and may increase the risk of psychiatric morbidity among primary family caregivers. However, the associated factors of psychiatric morbidity among caregivers have not been fully investigated.

Aims: This study aimed to screen psychiatric morbidity and its correlates among primary family caregivers of persons with schizophrenia receiving inpatient psychiatric rehabilitation services.

Caregiver burden and health-related quality of life among primary family caregivers of individuals with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine correlates of caregiver burden and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among primary family caregivers of individuals with schizophrenia in inpatient psychiatric rehabilitation facilities.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 157 Taiwanese primary family caregivers of individuals with schizophrenia residing in inpatient psychiatric facilities. Measures included socio-demographic questionnaires and clinical information, Mutuality Scale, Family Crisis-Oriented Personal Evaluation Scales, Zarit Burden Interview, and World Health Organization Quality of Life-brief version.

Factors associated with family functioning among people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and primary family caregivers.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Families act not only as the primary support for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia but also as partners in the healthcare system. Families who have members with mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia, experience challenges in family functioning. Research on families in relation to schizophrenia primarily focuses on the determinants that affect family functioning from primary family caregivers' perspectives.

Factors Associated With Primary Family Caregivers' Perceptions on Quality of Family-Centered Care in Mental Health Practice.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the quality of family-centered care perceived by primary family caregivers and its influencing factors in mental healthcare practice.

Design: A cross-sectional, correlational study.

Methods: A convenience sample of 121 mental health nurses and 164 primary family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia was recruited from acute psychiatric wards and chronic psychiatric rehabilitation wards in three psychiatric hospitals in Taiwan.

Living with schizophrenia: Health-related quality of life among primary family caregivers.

Aims And Objectives: To examine influencing factors of health-related quality of life in primary family caregivers of people with schizophrenia receiving inpatient psychiatric rehabilitation services.

Background: Families, particularly primary family caregivers, have become more important than ever in mental health care. Yet, research on health-related quality of life among primarily family caregivers is limited.

Effect of family sense of coherence on internalized stigma and health-related quality of life among individuals with schizophrenia.

Health-related quality of life is an increasingly critical outcome of mental healthcare, yet its disease-independent attributes, particularly family-focused resilient indicators, for individuals with schizophrenia have not been explicitly examined. The aim of this study was to explore the degree of health-related quality of life and to examine the mediating effect of family sense of coherence on internalized stigma and health-related quality of life in individuals with schizophrenia. A cross-sectional and correlational study design was used.

Factors influencing mental health nurses' attitudes towards people with mental illness.

This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing mental health nurses' attitudes towards people with mental illness. A descriptive correlation design was used. A sample of 180 Taiwanese mental health nurses was recruited from mental health-care settings.