Key result
A short-term psychoeducational group intervention did not significantly improve cardiovascular risk factors or indexes compared with usual individual care at 1 year.
Why the study?
Psychoeducational interventions to improve healthy habits regarding cardiovascular risk in people with a severe mental disorder showed scarce results in the literature.
Does a short-term psychoeducational group intervention improve cardiovascular risk factors and indexes in adult outpatients with severe mental disorder and moderate to very high CVR?
RCT (n=80)
Does a short-term psychoeducational group intervention improve cardiovascular risk factors and indexes in adult outpatients with severe mental disorder and moderate to very high CVR?
A short psychoeducational group intervention added to usual care did not significantly improve cardiovascular risk factors or indexes in patients with severe mental disorders, partly due to poor compliance.
Short-term psychoeducational groups add no CV risk benefit over usual care in severe mental illness; challenges efficacy of brief educational interventions.
Psychoeducational interventions to improve healthy habits regarding cardiovascular risk (CVR) in people with a severe mental disorder showed scarce results in the literature. In this article, we showed the results of a randomized clinical trial including 80 adult outpatients (mainly psychosis spectrum) with moderate to very high CVR. A short-term psychoeducational group intervention to improve healthy habits regarding CVR was added to their as-usual individual psychoeducational schedule. With an intention-to-treat analysis, we expected improvements in the different parameters. Baseline and 1-year follow-up included CVR factors and indexes (REGICOR, SCORE, and DORICA). Basal characteristics did not show statistically significant differences between the groups. No significant improvements in any of the variables studied were observed in the intervention enriched group compared with the control individual group. Compliance with the sessions was scarce. The satisfaction with the intervention and the acquisition of knowledge were adequate. Moreover, the benefits of both interventions were weak.
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Torralbas‐Ortega et al. (2020) conducted an RCT in Severe mental disorder with moderate to very high cardiovascular risk (n=80). Short-term psychoeducational group intervention vs. Usual individual psychoeducational schedule was evaluated on Cardiovascular risk factors and indexes (REGICOR, SCORE, and DORICA). A short-term psychoeducational group intervention did not significantly improve cardiovascular risk factors or indexes compared with usual individual care at 1 year.
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