Social Cognition and Interaction Training for Adults With Psychotic Disorders: An Open Pilot Study in Finland

Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cognitive Function 1, Social; Psychotic Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Social Cognition and Interaction Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02399020

169/13/03/03/2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

33 individuals with a psychotic disorder were given 22-24 sessions weekly or twice weekly of Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) and evaluated at the baseline and after the intervention. Main outcome was improvement in social cognition according to specific measures of facial emotion identification, Theory of Mind, attributional bias, social cognitive accuracy and metacognitive overconfidence.

Full description

33 clinically stable in- and outpatients with chart diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or unspecified nonorganic psychosis, aged 18-56 years, were given 22-24 weekly or twice weekly sessions of a manualized group treatment for improvement of social cognition, Social Cognition and Interaction Training (1,2). Main outcome was defined as improvement in social cognition according to specific measures of facial emotion identification, Theory of Mind, attributional bias, social cognitive accuracy and metacognitive overconfidence.Emotion perception was measured with the Facial Emotion Identification Task (FEIT) (3); Theory of Mind was measured with the Hinting Task (4) and attributional bias with the Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire-Ambiguous Items (AIHQ-A) (5). In addition, broad-based social cognitive accuracy, attributional bias and metacognitive overconfidence was measured with the Social Cognition Screening Questionnaire. All the measures were evaluated at the baseline and immediately after the intervention. Changes in total scores for the FEIT and Hinting Task, and the three subscales of AIHQ-A and SCSQ were analysed separately using paired samples t-test in IBM SPSS Statistics version 21.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or psychosis NOS
• inpatients in longer-stay rehabilitation wards or outpatients in supported housing
• stable clinical condition
• written informed consent
• problems in social relationships according to the clinical staff
• standard medical treatment provided by the care facilities

Exclusion criteria

• inadequate command of Finnish language
• unstable clinical condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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33 participants in 1 patient group

SCIT group

Experimental group

Description:

Social Cognition and Interaction Training intervention group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social Cognition and Interaction Training