A clinical trial to see the effects of weak current applied over head in patients with Schizophrenia
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Stable patients diagnosed with Scizophrenia
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/09/009690
- Lead Sponsor
- Kasturba medical college
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 29
Inclusion Criteria
Patients aged between 18 to 60 years, of either sex, fulfilling the DSM-V criteria for diagnosis of Schizophrenia and confirmed by two consultants.
Patients on treatment with stable dose of antipsychotics for atleast past 6 weeks.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients displaying aggressive, suicidal behavior, catatonia requiring electro convulsive therapy or injectable sedatives (excluding depot antipsychotics)
Patients with comorbid psychiatric disorders
Mental retardation, Head injury, seizure and other neurological disorders
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To study effect of tDCS on psychopathology as measured by PANSS(positive and negative symptom scale) <br/ ><br>To study the effect of tdcs on global cognitive functions as assessed on the schizophrenia cognition rating scale <br/ ><br>To study the effect of tdcs on attention and facial emotion recognition by digit vigilence test,trail making test and tool for recognition of emotion in neuropsychiatric disorders <br/ ><br>Timepoint: Assessed at baseline,6th day postintervention and at 1 month follow up.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method nilTimepoint: nil