Social Cognitive Training for Psychosis: Treatment Development

Yale University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Psychosis; Schizophrenia

Treatments: Behavioral: social cognitive training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01579422

1008007225

1R34MH090109 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim of this proposal is to develop, refine, manualize and assess the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a brief, narrowly-focused social cognitive intervention for individuals with psychosis. The intervention will focus on helping individuals interpret social situations, specifically the intentions and feelings of others.

Study methods include preliminary treatment and manual development based on series of uncontrolled cases, manual refinement, and a small feasibility/efficacy trial of the newly developed intervention.

Enrollment: 77 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder
• Age between 18 and 55
• Psychiatrically stable
• Clinician agrees to individual's participation in study
• English as primary language

Exclusion criteria

• current (past 30 days) symptoms of alcohol abuse/dependence
• developmental disability
• severe auditory/visual impairment or known neurological disorder
• participant has a legal conservator

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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77 participants in 1 patient group

social cognitive training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: social cognitive training