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Title New hope to end Black schizophrenia care crisis Degree of recognition National Media type Print Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 24/11/17 Description
A groundbreaking talking treatment has been developed and successfully trialled with a group of Black and minority ethnic (BME) schizophrenia service users, carers, community members and health professionals.
Dr Dawn Edge from The University of Manchester led a team that developed the model in a study funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) which she says could be a breakthrough for BME patients whose mental healthcare is both sub-optimal and costly for the NHS.
The new therapy, called Culturally-Adapted Family Intervention, or ‘CaFI’ for short, emerges in the context of decades of poor engagement between Black communities and mental health services.
The research to develop and test the new treatment was conducted over three years at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
CaFI was trialled with 26 family units, of which 24 completed all 10 therapy sessions. Half the service users who took part had no contact with their families –and were given the support of ‘care coordinators, friends or community members from a range of ethnic backgrounds.Producer/Author Dr Dawn Edgee URL www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/new-hope-to-end-black-schizophrenia-care-crisis/ Persons Michael Addelman
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Global inequalities
Keywords
- psychosis
- schizophrenia
- inequality
- mental health
- African-Caribbean