Am J Psychiatry 154:1514-1524, November 1997
© 1997 American Psychiatric Association
Three-Year Trials of Personal Therapy Among Schizophrenic Patients Living With or Independent of Family, II: Effects on Adjustment of Patients
Gerard E. Hogarty, M.S.W.,
Deborah Greenwald, Ph.D.,
Richard F. Ulrich, M.S.,
Sander J. Kornblith, Ph.D.,
Ann Louise DiBarry, M.S.N.,
Susan Cooley, M.S.N.,
Mary Carter, Ph.D., and
Samuel Flesher, Ph.D.
OBJECTIVE: Previous analyses of the personal and social adjustment of outpatients with schizophrenia have either relied on the assessment of unrepresentative patients who survived without relapse or used analyses that included relapse assessments, a potential confound when different rates of relapse existed among treatment conditions. The authors' goal was to conduct a study of the effects of personal therapy on outcome that was designed to take into consideration the effects of relapse. METHOD: They evaluated the effectiveness of personal therapy over 3 years after hospital discharge among 151 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. The patients were randomly assigned to receive personal therapy or contrasting therapies in one of two concurrent trials. One trial included patients who were living with family (N=97); the other included patients who were living independent of family (N=54). Patients were assessed at 6-month intervals over 3 years of treatment on measures of personal and social adjustment; patients who relapsed and restabilized and those who did not relapse were included. RESULTS: Personal therapy had positive effects on broad components of social adjustment (role performance) but had few differential effects on symptoms, and patients receiving personal therapy remained more anxious than patients who received family or supportive therapy. For patients who were living with family, personal therapy led to better outcomes in overall performance than did the other treatments. Although family therapy had only one positive effect on patients' social adjustment, the personal adjustment (residual symptoms) of patients who received family therapy appeared to improve more than that of patients receiving personal or supportive therapy. For patients not living with family, personal therapy was more successful than supportive therapy in improving work performance and relationships out of the home. Longitudinal effects of personal therapy on symptoms were similar to those of family and supportive therapies, particularly in the first 2 years, but personal therapy effect sizes increased over time on measures of social adjustment. CONCLUSIONS: Personal therapy has pervasive effects on the social adjustment of patients with schizophrenia that are independent of relapse prevention. Supportive therapy, with or without family intervention, produces adjustment effects that peak at 12 months after discharge and plateau thereafter. However, personal therapy, a definitive psychosocial intervention, continues to improve the social adjustment of patients in the second and third years after discharge. Brief treatment would appear to be less effective than a long-term, disorder-relevant intervention for schizophrenia. (Am J Psychiatry 1997; 154:1514–1524)
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