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Social Skills Training in Refractory Schizophrenia

NCT00791882 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 92

Last updated 2009-11-30

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Summary

Objective Primary:

To evaluate the efficacy of social skills training in reducing negative symptoms in patients with refractory schizophrenia, in comparison with control (befriending group).

Secondary:

To evaluate changes in social functioning.

To evaluate the effect of SST in other dimensions of psychopathology: positive symptoms, depression and general psychopathology.

To evaluate the impact of SST in cognition.

Hypothesis Social skills training is more effective than control group (Befriending) in reducing negative symptoms in patients with refractory schizophrenia.

Conditions

  • Schizophrenia and Disorders With Psychotic Features

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Social Skills Training

A program developed during 20 weeks according to adapted BELLACK 's manual (1997),including sessions in group one hour per week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Helio Elkis, MD PhD · Departamento de Psiquiatria da FMUSP

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
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-08-31
Completion
2011-08-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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