Group Training for Social Skills in Psychosis (GRASP)

King's College London

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychotic Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: GRASP; Behavioral: Standard care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02181777

R&D2014/018

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of a social skills training group for people with psychosis.

Full description

This study is assessing the feasibility of a psychological intervention targeting social cognition problems in people with psychosis. The intervention is a group psychological treatment facilitated by a clinical psychologist. The group therapy takes advantage of audiovisual material and practical exercises to illustrate strategies and thinking styles that may help participants overcome difficulties in social settings.

A second objective of this study is to test a new method to measure social cognition by using portable devices. These devices will be carried by participants in their everyday life and will ask about their social activity levels at random times and record activity levels.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis part of the psychosis spectrum (according to DSM-IV or DSM-V or ICD-10)
• Good command of the English language
• Social engagement problems as evidenced by care coordinator report and number of hours spent in social activities per week lower than 10.

Exclusion criteria

• Primary diagnosis of substance abuse disorder
• Change in antipsychotic medication in the last six weeks
• Significant learning difficulties (premorbid IQ lower than 70)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

GRASP

Experimental group

Description:

GRoup trAining for Social skills in Psychosis

Treatment:

Behavioral: GRASP

Standard care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Treatment as usual as provided by care team

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard care