Department of Nursing Education, School of Therapeutic Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Park Town, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun-State, Nigeria.
Syst Rev. 2022 Feb 19;11(1):32. doi: 10.1186/s13643-022-01901-y.
The psychosocial rehabilitation of an individual with mental illness is an evidence-based approach to reducing the burden of the illness and the associated stigma globally. Specifically, in Africa, it has promising scope for African life and the African economy. Psychosocial rehabilitation is described as a set of approaches that aim to assist an individual in achieving restoration from a state of dependency caused by schizophrenia to a state of being an independent decision-maker. However, there seems to be a dearth of literature and implementation of psychosocial rehabilitation in Africa. Therefore, it is necessary to map studies on how psychosocial rehabilitation is conducted for people living in Africa with the most chronic form of mental illness, schizophrenia.
This study will adopt the Arksey and O'Malley scoping review framework to search and compile relevant studies. This process will involve three steps: title screening, to be performed solely by the principal investigator, followed by abstract and full-text screening, to be performed independently by two reviewers (the principal investigator and co-investigator). Rayyan QCRI, a systematic reviews web app, will be used for tracking the screening records, and data charting form will be used to extract basic data of included studies. The risk of bias in the articles identified for screening will be assessed by the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool (MMAT). Finally, the content analysis of the screened studies will be performed with NVivo.
This study has the likelihood of revealing a research gap in psychosocial rehabilitation approaches and methods. The review results will constitute part of the available evidence that the researchers aim to adopt in the broader part of the project, which aims to develop implementation strategies for the psychosocial rehabilitation of chronic mental illnesses, specifically schizophrenia, in Sub-Sahara Africa. The implementation process also encompasses disseminating the findings of this review to stakeholders, which will enhance their knowledge of the current state of Sub-Saharan Africa and may stimulate support for the implementation of rehabilitation strategies.
个体的精神疾病的心理社会康复是一种基于证据的方法，旨在减轻全球疾病负担和相关耻辱感。具体来说，在非洲，它对非洲的生活和经济有着广阔的前景。心理社会康复被描述为一套旨在帮助个体从因精神分裂症而导致的依赖状态恢复到独立决策者状态的方法。然而，在非洲，心理社会康复的文献和实施似乎都很匮乏。因此，有必要绘制研究如何对生活在非洲的患有最慢性精神疾病——精神分裂症的人进行心理社会康复。
本研究将采用 Arksey 和 O'Malley 的范围综述框架来搜索和编制相关研究。这个过程将包括三个步骤：标题筛选，仅由首席研究员进行；然后是摘要和全文筛选，由两位评审员（首席研究员和共同研究员）独立进行。Rayyan QCRI，一个系统综述网络应用程序，将用于跟踪筛选记录，并且数据图表表格将用于提取纳入研究的基本数据。将使用混合方法评估工具（MMAT）评估确定用于筛选的文章的偏倚风险。最后，将使用 NVivo 对筛选出的研究进行内容分析。
这项研究有可能揭示心理社会康复方法方面的研究空白。审查结果将构成研究人员旨在在更广泛的项目部分采用的现有证据的一部分，该项目旨在制定撒哈拉以南非洲地区慢性精神疾病，特别是精神分裂症的心理社会康复实施策略。实施过程还包括向利益攸关方传播本审查的结果，这将提高他们对撒哈拉以南非洲现状的了解，并可能激发对康复策略实施的支持。
