Video Games Among People With Schizophrenia

Summary

The investigators aim to establish a research project to test the impact of gaming by carrying out a digital gaming interventions, monitoring its cognitive and clinical outcomes, while concurrently performing a multimodal brain imaging experiment.

Conditions

• Cognitive Function
• Schizophrenia and Disorders With Psychotic Features

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognifit

CogniFit is an Internet browser-based digital brain training program, to improve cognitive abilities based on a personalised brain training regimen. Participants are instructed to play all games assigned by cognifit from three categories (memory, spatial perception, and mental planning) during each training session. After playing the games in these three categories, they are free to choose which exercises they wish to play.

BEHAVIORAL

SIMS 4 (Maxis, Inc)

The Sims 4 is a life simulation PC game. It is purely an entertainment game without known cognitive or health-related outcomes. Does not iclude high-intensity action and competition. This specific game and non-competitive games like it in general do not improve attention, working memory, or other cognitive abilities despite being engaging and fun.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Helsinki

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Turku

  collaborator OTHER

• Kowloon Hospital, Hong Kong

  collaborator OTHER

• Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Maxgrace Fuller House

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong

  collaborator OTHER

• Sichuan University

  collaborator OTHER

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Maritta Välimäki, Professor · Xiang Nursing School, Central South University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of Turku

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-05-16

Primary Completion

2021-07-31

Completion

2021-12-31

Countries

• Hong Kong

Study Locations