Effects of a Psycho-corporal Training on Postural and Cognitive Dual-task Performances in Patients With Schizophrenia

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Status: Completed

Conditions: Schizophrenia

Treatments: Other: Movement group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03280810

1708158

Details and patient eligibility

About

Beside these well-known symptoms (positive symptoms (such as delirium and delusions), negative symptoms (such as affective flattening and impoverishment of speech), disorganized behavior, patients with schizophrenia show different kinds of cognitive alterations and motor abnormalities. In schizophrenia, postural impairment could increase the attentional cost of daily motor tasks, leading to a lack of attentional resources, essential to achieve complex cognitive tasks. The intrication of cognitive and postural processings (both impaired in schizophrenia) can be explored by using of a dual-task paradigm.

Full description

This study assesses a psycho-corporal training (8 weeks psycho-corporal training) benefits on both postural (increased automation of balance control) and cognitive processings (smaller impact of the dual-task condition on attentional performances) in population of patients suffering from schizophrenia.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• a DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) diagnosis of schizophrenia (men or women)
• Men or woman aged 18-55
• Patients with no change in antipsychotic medication and clinical status within four weeks prior to the study
• Affiliates or entitled to a social security scheme
• Have given their informed consent before participating in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Intelligence Quotient below 70 (score PM38)
• History of head trauma, neurological disease or not stabilized serious physical illness
• Disorders related to the use of a psychoactive substance, as defined by the DSM-IV (abuse, dependence or withdrawal) within 6 months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Movement group

Experimental group

Description:

patients with schizophrenia (experimental group) have psycho-corporal training once a week, during 1 hour and a half for a period of two months

Treatment:

Other: Movement group

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervervention : patients with schizophrenia (comparator group) who don't have psycho-corporal training