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Attention Shaping Procedures for Improving Psychosocial Skills Among Adults With Schizophrenia

NCT00391677 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2012-09-28

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Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of attention shaping procedures in improving attentiveness and learning abilities in people undergoing psychosocial skills training treatment for schizophrenia.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Social skills training with attention shaping procedures

Social skills training with attention shaping procedures includes behavioral procedures to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of attentive behaviors and to reduce the frequency of inattentive behaviors.

BEHAVIORAL

Social skills training without attention shaping

Social skills training without attention shaping is based on the UCLA Basic Conversation Skills Training Module, used without attention shaping procedures.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Steven M. Silverstein, PhD · University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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