Efficacy of Mental Health Interventions for Psychosis in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs): A Systematic Review

Abstract

Schizophrenia, a psychotic disorder, involves experiences outside reality, like hallucinations and delusions. Psychological Interventions is an empirically based psychological treatment, which showed effectiveness in the betterment of patients who have schizophrenia. The current study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for treating psychosis such as schizophrenia among Low and Middle-Income Countries ‘LMICs.’ The Academic databases “SCOPUS, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and MEDLINE” was searched for collecting the research studies. PICO stands for Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome, was used to develop specific criteria to include or exclude studies for this review. A total of 26,612 records were included in the screening process. Further, 74 studies were ident from other sources, such as through manual searches and while checking the reference of the studies, so any potential research will not be missed. After initial screening, the duplicate data was removed were 9,924 research studies. The Final seven studies conducted in different cities in LMICs were included in the narrative synthesis. The results indicated that Psychoeducation and culturally adopted therapies are more effective for severe mental health issues among Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).