Work Activity Augmented by Cognitive Rehabilitation for Schizophrenia

NCT00430560 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2017-09-11

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Summary

This research investigates the benefits of productive activity and cognitive rehabilitation for patients with schizophrenia. Key questions are:

1. does cognitive rehabilitation plus work activity produce better outcomes than work activity alone?
2. Is cognitive rehabilitation more helpful for individuals with moderate or greater cognitive impairment than for individuals without such impairment?
3. Does cognitive rehabilitation reduce the dropout rate and increase participation in work activity for cognitively impaired subjects?
4. What features of cognitive rehabilitation are most important for clinical and rehabilitation outcomes?

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

cognitive rehabilitation

computer training

PROCEDURE

work therapy

opportunity to work in carefully supervised hospital job

BEHAVIORAL

work therapy

work therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Connecticut Healthcare System

    collaborator FED
  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Morris D Bell, Ph.D. · VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2000-10-31
Primary Completion
2005-10-31
Completion
2015-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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