Effectiveness of Meta-Cognitive Training (EMC) in People With Psychosis of Brief Evolution.

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of Meta-Cognitive Training (EMC) in people with a brief psychotic disorder, especially positive symptoms.

The secondary objectives would be to assess the effect of EMC on metacognition (cognitive distortions and deficits in theory of mind), psychosocial functioning and quality of life, neuropsychological functioning and gender, as well as determine the changes produced by EMC in the insight of each session and the maintenance of the effects of EMC program at six months of treatment.

Conditions

• Psychosis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Meta-cognitive Training

BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducational group

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu

  collaborator OTHER

• Corporacion Parc Tauli

  collaborator OTHER

• Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

  collaborator OTHER

• Fundación para la Investigación del Hospital Clínico de Valencia

  collaborator OTHER

• Centre d'Higiene Mental Les Corts

  collaborator OTHER

• Institut d´Assistència Sanitària Girona

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Servicio Andaluz de Salud de Granada, Málaga y Jaén

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Fundació Sant Joan de Déu

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Susana Ochoa, PhD · Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu

• Marisa Barrigón, PhD · Servicio Andaluz de Salud. Granada

• Fermín González · Servicio Andaluz de Salud. Jaen

• Isabel Ruiz · Servicio Andaluz de Salud. Málaga

• Eva Grasa · Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

• Esther Pousa, PhD · Corporacion Parc Tauli

• Esther Lorente, PhD · Hospital Clínic de València

• Ana Barajas · Centre d'Higiene Mental de les Corts

• Jordi Cid · Institut d'Assistència Sanitària de Girona

• Raquel López, MS · Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

45 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-08-31

Primary Completion

2013-09-30

Completion

2014-12-31