| Methods |
Allocation: randomised.
Blind: no.
Duration: 8 weeks intervention + 26 weeks follow‐up.
Setting: outpatients.
Design: parallel.
Country: China. |
| Participants |
Diagnosis: schizophrenia (CCMD‐3).
N = 120.
Sex: not reported.
Age: not reported.
History: not reported. |
| Interventions |
1. Social skills training group: UCLA Social and independent Living Skills programme guidelines, including three major elements: 1) independent social living skills training, e.g. draft plans on reintegrate to society and cope with stressful life events; 2) medication management, e.g. getting to know the effect and side effects of antipsychotic drugs, learn to recognise and deal with medication side effect; 3) symptom self‐monitoring. Means of delivering the training including the use of video, role play, problem solving discussions. Frequency of the session is 90 to 120minutes per session, one session a week for 8 weeks (N = 60).
2. Control group: conventional community care (N = 60). |
| Outcomes |
Leaving the study early.
Mental state: positive symptoms (SAPS) and negative symptoms (SANS).
General functioning: Disability Assessment Scale (DAS).
Relapse. |
| Notes |
In Chinese. |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Randomised with random number tables. |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
No information provided. |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
Not blinded. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
No incomplete outcome data. |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Low risk |
All stated outcomes reported. |
| Other bias |
Unclear risk |
Protocol not available. Sample size not calculated. |
