Facial Emotion Recognition Training In Persons With Chronic Mental Illness (Schizophrenia)
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Only remitted schizophrenia patients were included in this study. Hence they were able to focus on training program. their symptoms of schizophrenia were in control.
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/04/008351
- Lead Sponsor
- Indian Council of Social Science Research
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 65
1. Persons who give consent for the study
2. Educated at least up to 7th standard and should be able to read Kannada.
3. Persons who meet the criteria of schizophrenia according to ICD 10.
4. PANSS score of <= 70
5. Clinical Global impression Severity(CGI-S) <=3
6. Hindi Mental State Examination score >24
7. On stable dose of antipsychotic medication for last 4 weeks
1. Patients with comorbid neurological disorder such as seizure disorder, stroke, head trauma or mental retardation.
2. Patients with comorbid depression or OCD on clinical interview.
3. Patients meeting criteria for substance dependence other than nicotine in the last 6 weeks.
4. During the intervention if patient shows signs of relapse, PANSS will be repeated and if he/she scores more than 70 in PANSS, he/she will be dropped from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome is improvement in facial emotion recognition. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Timepoint: Baseline to post assessment (one and half month) and the conducting two to three months of followup after the post assessment
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method secondary outcome is improvement in attention and working memoryTimepoint: Baseline to post assessment (one and half month) and the conducting two to three months of followup after the post assessment