Cognitive Training for Patients With Schizophrenia

University of California San Diego

Status: Completed

Conditions: Schizophrenia; Schizoaffective Disorder; Other Primary Psychotic Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01521026

NARSAD Young Investigator

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research on cognitive training addresses the following questions:

1. Does cognitive training lead to improved cognition, functional abilities, psychiatric symptoms, treatment adherence, or quality of life in patients with psychoses?
2. What are the neurocognitive and non-cognitive factors that predict good outcomes following cognitive rehabilitation? In addition to verbal learning and memory, immediate verbal memory, vigilance, and executive functioning, the cognitive training intervention attempted to improve prospective memory ability (i.e., the ability to remember to do things in the future, such as take medications or attend a doctor's appointment).

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary psychotic disorder (including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, psychotic mood disorder, or psychosis NOS)
• Age 18 or older
• Fluency in English

Exclusion criteria

• Dementia
• Neurological conditions affecting cognition
• Mental retardation
• Substance use disorder within the past month
• Participation in other intervention trials

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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69 participants in 2 patient groups

Cognitive Training

Experimental group

Description:

Cognitive training group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive Training

Standard Pharmacotherapy

No Intervention group