Participant identification
schizophrenia, Psychosis
RECRUITMENT
In China, most of the community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia who have been diagnosed in hospitals or primary care services are registered in the National Information System for Psychosis of China. The recruitment processes of this trial are as follows: Primary care physicians from 18 sub-districts of Hanting, Kuiwen and Weicheng districts, identify the potential participants who met the inclusion criteria from their local registered community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia. Eligible patients will be invited to join the trial by primary care physicians or nurses. They will be given information about the trial and the study procedure in a way appropriate to the participants’ literacy level by telephone or face-to face. Those who consent (or, for those without decision-making capacity, the caregiver will consent on their behalf) to participate will go to community health care center to sign the informed consent and complete baseline data collection. Within each sub-district, the recruitment will continue until approximately 20% of community-dwelling patients have been recruited.