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SCIT Versus TAR for Outpatients With Schizophrenia

NCT03446703 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2018-02-27

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Summary

The present work consists of a randomized clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of two interventions based on social cognition training in outpatients with schizophrenia. The investigators sought to compare the effect of a "targeted" (TAR) and a "broad-based" (SCIT) intervention on schizophrenia patients' performance in facial affect recognition, theory of mind and attributional style. Secondarily, the investigators compare the effect on symptomatology, general cognition and functioning. The main hypothesis was that the patient group receiving TAR would exhibit a greater improvement in emotion recognition performance at the post-intervention assessment in comparison to patients receiving the SCIT, and, conversely, patients receiving SCIT would show more effect in ToM and attributional style. To assess the durability of these effects, performance in measures of social cognition, basic cognitive functioning, symptomatology and functional capacity were assessed before (T0), after treatment (T1) and 3 months later (T2).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SCIT

SCIT is a 18 weekly sessions lasting 45-60 minutes per session. The group will include 8-12 patients, with 2 therapists. The content of the sessions is based on the Spanish translation of the original SCIT (Social Cognition and Interaction Training) instruction manual (Combs, Adams, et al., 2007); (G. Lahera et al., 2013). The manual of the program developed for the improvement of emotional perception skills, attributional style and theory of mind in people with schizophrenia.

BEHAVIORAL

TAR

TAR is a 12-session training on facial affect recognition over a period of 6 weeks. Treatment includes one therapist (psychiatrist or clinical psychologist) and 2 patients. It involves neuropsychological strategies, such as restitution and compensation, as well as principles of errorless learning, direct positive reinforcement, verbalization and self-instruction (Frommann et al., 2003; Wölwer et al., 2005).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alcala

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-01
Primary Completion
2016-10-01
Completion
2017-06-30

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