Effectiveness of Using Calligraphic Activity to People With Schizophrenia

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Schizophrenia

Treatments

Behavioral: Calligraphy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03882619

19-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

To examine the effects of calligraphy activity on symptoms, attention, emotion, and quality of life in people with schizophrenia. We hypothesized that through a six-month intervention using calligraphy activity, people with schizophrenia will have their symptoms decreased, attention improved, emotion enhanced, and quality of life increased. This study will adopt single-blind, randomized controlled trial, and 160 people with schizophrenia will be recruited in this study. They will be randomly assigned to either a calligraphy activity group (treatment group; n=80) or an occupational activity group (control group; n=80). Participants will complete assessments at pretest, posttest, and 3-month follow-up using the following instruments: Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Chu's Attention Test, The Taiwanese version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-T), WHO questionnaire on the Quality of Life, Brief Form (WHOQOL-BREF), and Chinese Depression Anxiety Stress Scales(DASS21).

Enrollment

150 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 64 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Inpatients
With diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
Not in acute stage
Voluntarily participate

Exclusion criteria

Severe cognition level or intellectual disability that prevent from participation
Severe behavioral problems and symptoms that prevent from participation
People with blindness