treatment schizophrenia patients: double-blind randomized controlled trial
- Conditions
- schizophrenia.Schizophrenia
- Registration Number
- IRCT20210608051514N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Zanjan University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Male
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Having a diagnosis of schizophrenia
Having the ability to write informed consent
Experience positive symptoms despite a month of stabilization in medication dose
The same dose and medicine
Being a man
Being right-handed
Age 65_18 years
The dose of antipsychotic medication used by the person is constant at the beginning and during the research
Stabilization in drug treatment for at least 6 weeks
Have a history of suicide and abuse of alcohol and substances other than caffeine and tobacco in the past month
Have a history of neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, seizures, stroke and cardiovascular problems
Having diseases related to the scalp
Having a history of head trauma and the presence of a device or tool in the head
Withdrawal from the study after absence in two consecutive sessions of treatment.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method egative symptoms:Theoretical definition: It is one of the clinical symptoms in schizophrenia that includes superficial emotion, poor speech, lack of motivation, unhappiness and social transgression.Operational definition: The score that a person gets from the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.Positive symptoms: Theoretical definition includes delusions, delusions, disturbed speech, and disturbed behavior that persist throughout a one-month period.Operational definition: The score that a person gets from the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Timepoint: Pre-test-post-test-one-month follow-up-quarterly follow-up. Method of measurement: The score that a person gets from the questionnaire for measuring positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Working memory:Theoretical definition: means the ability to store and manipulate information in memory, which is an essential prerequisite for complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning and comprehension. Timepoint: Pre-test-post-test-one-month follow-up-quarterly follow-up. Method of measurement: The score a person gets from the n back test.