The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Psychoeducation Programme Given Individually to Schizophrenia Patients on Internalised Stigma and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours

Schizophrenia is a chronic, recurrent and disabling illness that usually lasts a lifetime and causes serious problems in quality of life and functioning. Psychoeducation programmes added to drug treatment in the treatment of schizophrenia have been shown to increase the knowledge of patients and their relatives about the disease, coping skills, prevention of exacerbations and relapses of the disease, social functioning, insight into the disease, compliance with drug treatment and quality of life. Rehabilitated individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia who are registered and continuing at Kastamonu Training and Research Community Mental Health Centre will constitute the population, and individuals who continue between April 2024 and May 2024 will constitute the sample. The research will be conducted with schizophrenic patients in a pre-test-post-test, experimental and control group experimental design. Power analysis will be performed to determine the number of people to be sampled and calculated with the G\*Power 3.1 programme. 40 people will be reached in the groups, 20 people in the experimental group and 20 people in the control group. In the evaluation of the data, descriptive statistical methods (Mean, Standard deviation) as well as the correlation test will be used to evaluate the relationship between the average scores before and after the training in the comparison of quantitative data. Wilcoxon related sample test will be used to make comparisons before and after the training. Personal Information Form, Internalised Stigma Scale in Mental Illness (ISIS) and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours (HBSB) scale will be used to collect the data. Awareness-based psychoeducation programme will be applied to the experimental group. The aim of psychoeducation is to create a change in knowledge and behaviour towards healthy lifestyle behaviours (1- Self-actualisation, 2- Health responsibility, 3- Exercise, 4- Nutrition, 5- Interpersonal support, 6- Stress management) by reducing internalised stigma. Therefore, it will be evaluated whether the applied psychoeducation programme creates the intended change in knowledge and behaviour. This study will be conducted to examine the effect of a 6-week 12-session self-awareness-based psychoeducation programme given to schizophrenia patients on internalised stigma and healthy lifestyle behaviours. In this study, schizophrenic patients will be provided with regular psychoeducation to provide individual support, to ensure the development of coping skills for self-protection, and to gain knowledge and skills to gain a healthy lifestyle. After the prepared psychoeducation, a training guide will be created for the participants and will be given after the training, thus ensuring continuity of education.