Effect of Psycho-education Enrichment on Family s Ability to Control Hallucinations in People with Schizophrenia: Pre-experimental Study

Aims: The family is a support system in the service system for schizophrenia patients. Family-based psychological training for people suffering from auditory hallucinations has not yet been implemented, and no attention has been paid to auditory hallucination nursing. This study aimed to determine the effect of psycho-education enrichment on the family’s ability to control hallucinations in Schizophrenia patients. Materials Methods: This study is a pre-experimental study with a one-group pre-test and post-test design. From a total of 1343 families of people suffering from auditory hallucinations, 30 people were selected by simple random sampling from Jambi Mental Hospital. The psycho-educational activity was conducted for three sessions of 90-120 minutes. All collected data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon test. Findings: The mean age of the study participants was 45.2±13.6 years. After the intervention, the mean scores of knowledge (p 0.001), attitude (p 0.010), and skill (p 0.001) of participants significantly increased in the post-test compared to the pre-test. Conclusion: Psycho-education interventions can improve the ability of families to control auditory hallucinations in family members with schizophrenia as part of nursing interventions.