NCT07121166Recruiting
Tele-group Cognitive Behavioural Family Intervention for Individuals With Schizophrenia and Their Families (Definitive tgCBFI)
Effectiveness of a Tele-group Cognitive Behavioural Family Intervention (tgCBFI) for People With Schizophrenia and Their Families: a Mixed-method Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 24 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This mixed-method study comprises a RCT with a twelve-week post-intervention follow-up and focus group interviews. The RCT study aims to examine the effectiveness of delivering the tgCBFI programme to dyads of people with schizophrenia and their family caregivers, while the focus group interviews aim to qualitatively study the benefits of the tgCBFI programme from the service users and their family caregivers to provide a more in-depth understanding and complement the quantitative data. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does this online tgCBFI programme reduce the expressed emotion experienced and positive and negative symptoms of individuals with schizophrenia? Does this online tgCBFI programme reduce the perceived care burden and level of mood disturbances of family caregivers?
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 200 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 6 Aug 2025
- Start date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Primary completion date
- 31 May 2028
- Lead sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Diseases
- Schizophrenia
- NCT number
- NCT07121166
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 200
- From 1 Sept 2025 to the primary completion date, 31 May 2028
- 6 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- having co-morbidity of learning disability, organic/neurological conditions, or substance use disorder, and
- having active psychiatric conditions
Other
- living in a hostel
- Family caregivers
Who the study is looking for
- current diagnosis of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, based on ICD-10 made by the treating clinicians,
- aged 18-64, and
- able to read and write Chinese
- aged 18 or above,
- able to read and write Chinese,
- live with service users, and
- nominated by the service users
Criteria the registry did not label
- Individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
Age in the registry: 18 years to 64 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (6)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALOHA (Eastern) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chai Wan | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Kowloon Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kowloon City | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Kwai Chung Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kwai Chung | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| United Christian Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kwun Tong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Queen Mary Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pokfulam | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| ALOHA (Wong Tai Sin) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tsz Wan Shan | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
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