Integrated Parenting Intervention for Parents With Schizophrenia: A Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial in Pakistan
Evidence reports that parents with schizophrenia are particularly vulnerable to parenting difficulties and also experience problems in sensitively interacting with their children. This may cause insecure attachment in infants of mothers with psychosis. Children of parents with schizophrenia have poor developmental and clinical outcomes. However, there is no published trial, to the best of our knowledge, for children of parents with schizophrenia. Learning through Play (LTP) is a potentially low cost intervention to improve maternal mental health and child outcomes by promoting health child development. The proposed study will integrate LTP with existing culturally appropriate Cognitive Behaviour Theray (CBT) for psychosis (CaCBT-p) and test its feasibility and acceptability for parents with schizophrenia.
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-V (DSM-V) diagnosed first episode psychosis, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, psychosis not otherwise specified or schizophreniform disorder.
• Parents (Mother or Father), age 18 year and above
• Parents (Mother or Father) having a child from birth to 36 months
• Parents (Mother or Father) living within the catchment area of recruitment site.
• Competent and willing to give informed consent
• Parents (Mother or Father) are stable on medication for at least 3 months prior to the intervention.