| Total samplea (N = 77) | Intervention (N = 42) | TAU (N = 35) | Statistic (df) | p value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | ||
Participant characteristics | ||||||||
 Age | 35.5 | (10.2) | 35.3 | 10.9 | 35.8 | 9.5 | t = − 0.35 (75) | 0.726 |
 | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) |  |  |
 Sex | χ2 = 1.03 (1) | 0.311 | ||||||
  Male | 55 | 71.4 | 28 | 66.6 | 27 | 77.1 |  |  |
  Female | 22 | 28.6 | 14 | 33.3 | 8 | 22.9 |  |  |
 Ethnicity | χ2 = 0.51 (2) | 0.774 | ||||||
  Coloured | 47 | 66.2 | 26 | 66.7 | 21 | 65.6 |  |  |
  Black | 18 | 25.3 | 9 | 23.1 | 9 | 23.1 |  |  |
  Other | 6 | 8.5 | 4 | 10.3 | 2 | 6.3 |  |  |
 Marital status | χ2 = 0.29 (1) | 0.591 | ||||||
  Never married | 51 | 71.8 | 27 | 69.2 | 24 | 75.0 |  |  |
  Ever married | 20 | 28.2 | 12 | 30.8 | 8 | 25.0 |  |  |
 Highest level of education | χ2 = 0.15 (2) | 0.930 | ||||||
  Grade 7 or less | 12 | 17.7 | 6 | 16.7 | 6 | 18.7 |  |  |
  Grades 8 to 11 | 42 | 61.8 | 22 | 61.1 | 20 | 62.5 |  |  |
  Grade 12 | 14 | 20.6 | 8 | 22.2 | 6 | 18.8 |  |  |
 6 month employment | χ2 = 0.31 (1) | 0.579 | ||||||
  Unemployed | 47 | 69.1 | 28 | 71.8 | 19 | 65.5 |  |  |
  Employed | 21 | 30.9 | 11 | 28.2 | 10 | 34.5 |  |  |
 Diagnosis | 0.604 | |||||||
  Schizophrenia Spectrum | 62 | 80.5 | 32 | 76.2 | 30 | 85.7 |  |  |
  Bipolar mood disorder | 11 | 14.3 | 7 | 16.7 | 4 | 11.4 |  |  |
  Substance induced psychotic disorder | 4 | 5.2 | 3 | 7.1 | 1 | 2.9 |  |  |
 Substance use | χ2 = 0.18 (1) | 0.671 | ||||||
  Lifetime substance use disorder | 31 | 40,3 | 16 | 38.1 | 15 | 42.9 |  |  |
 Antipsychotic | ||||||||
  First generation | 50 | 64.9 | 26 | 61.9 | 24 | 68.6 | χ2 = 0.37 (1) | 0.542 |
  Second generation | 19 | 24.7 | 12 | 28.6 | 7 | 20.0 | χ2 = 0.75 (1) | 0.385 |
  Long acting injectable | 22 | 28.6 | 10 | 23.8 | 12 | 34.29 | χ2 = 1.03 (1) | 0.311 |
Baseline measures | ||||||||
 PANSS subscales | ||||||||
  Positive | 15.4 | 6.5 | 15.6 | 6.9 | 15.2 | 6.2 | t = 0.06 (73) | 0.951 |
  Negative | 14.4 | 4.7 | 13.8 | 4.8 | 15.1 | 4.5 | t = − 1.47 (73) | 0.015 |
  General | 26.8 | 7.5 | 26.5 | 7.9 | 27.1 | 7.2 | t = − 0.44 (73) | 0.663 |
  Total | 56.6 | 15.9 | 55.9 | 17.1 | 57.4 | 14.5 | t = − 0.42 (73) | 0.676 |
 CGI | 3.5 | 1 | 3.4 | 1 | 3.7 | 1 | t = − 0.96 (68) | 0.340 |
 GAF | 48.8 | 10.1 | 49.9 | 10.8 | 47.6 | 9.4 | z = 1.170 | 0.242 |
 CAN unmet needs | 4.1 | 2.98 | 3.6 | 2.97 | 4.7 | 2.94 | z = − 1.705 | 0.088 |
 EUROQUEL VAS | 8.4 | 20.7 | 84 | 21.2 | 84.8 | 20.4 | z = − 0.200 | 0.842 |
 MARS | 5.9 | 1.88 | 5.8 | 1.87 | 6.0 | 1.93 | t = − 0.36 (71) | 0.723 |