| Allocation: randomised, concealment clear.
Blindness: patients and therapists not blind, assessors blind.
Duration: 2 years.
Setting: in hospital at start of study, community follow up. |
Diagnosis: people with schizophrenia or related disorders.
N=300.*
Age: working age adults.
Sex: men & women.
History: people in their first episode reported separately. |
1. Compliance therapy: administered according to manual of Kemp and David, given over 5 sessions of 30‐60 minutes. N=150.
2. Non‐specific' counseling: delivered over 5 sessions of 30‐60 minutes duration.
N=150. |
Service use: bed occupancy (primary outcome).
Compliance: clinical interview.
Other routinely recorded measures of mental state, quality of life, general functioning, adverse effects and service use. |
* Powered to be reasonably confident of finding a 10% difference between groups for the primary outcome. |
