Online family program tested for people with schizophrenia and their caregivers
Tests an online group family program for adults with schizophrenia and their family caregivers.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Tele-group Cognitive Behavioural Family Intervention for Individuals With Schizophrenia and Their Families (Definitive tgCBFI)
Key facts
- Where
- Chai Wan, Kowloon City, Kwai Chung, Kwun Tong, Pokfulam, and Tsz Wan Shan, Hong KongSee the 6 sites
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 64 years old?
Source: NCT07121166, who can take part
Where in Hong Kong
- ALOHA (Eastern)Chai Wan, Hong KongTaking people
- Kowloon HospitalKowloon City, Hong KongTaking people
- Kwai Chung HospitalKwai Chung, Hong KongTaking people
- United Christian HospitalKwun Tong, Hong KongTaking people
- Queen Mary HospitalPokfulam, Hong KongTaking people
- ALOHA (Wong Tai Sin)Tsz Wan Shan, Hong KongTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Trial code
- NCT07121166
- Record updated
- 24 July 2026
- Original description
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?Read full original descriptionShow less
Effectiveness of a Tele-group Cognitive Behavioural Family Intervention (tgCBFI) for People With Schizophrenia and Their Families: a Mixed-method Study
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?
Inclusion: 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.
Exclusion: having co-morbidity of learning disability, organic/neurological conditions, or substance use disorder, and; having active psychiatric conditions; living in a hostel; Family caregivers.
Individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.