Meta Cognitive Training in patients recovering from recent onset psychosis

Completed

Conditions: 10039628
schizophrenia

Registration Number: NL-OMON39554

Lead Sponsor: Academisch Medisch Centrum

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a subject must meet the following criteria: recently developed schizophrenia or related disorder and an age between 18 and 35.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients scoring 6-7 on the PANSS positive subscales (patients suffering from serious positive symptoms that interfere with their daily functioning) are excluded as this is considered detrimental for group training.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The main outcome measures are<br /><br>1) paranoid ideation as measured with the Green Achterdochtige Gedachten Schaal<br /><br>(GAGS), a validated Dutch version of the Green Paranoid Thought Scales (GPTS)<br /><br>(Green et al., 2008);<br /><br>2) cognitive insight as measured with the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS).<br /><br>3) psychotic symptoms and general symptoms, as measured with the Positive and<br /><br>Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) (Kay, Lewis & Fiszbein, 1987) and with<br /><br>experience sampling (Palmier-Claus et al., 2011)<br /><br>4) Client satisfaction, as measured with the Client Satisfaction<br /><br>Questionnaire-8 (CSQ-8) (de Brey, 1983).<br /><br>5) Feasibility of the training as measured with the Client Evaluation<br /><br>Questionnaire (CEQ). </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>1) Jumping to conclusions (JTC) as measured with the Beadstest (Huq, Garety,<br /><br>& Hemsley, 1988).<br /><br>2) Attribution bias as measured with the Internal, Personal, and Situational<br /><br>Attributions Questionnaire (IPSAQ, Kinderman and Bentall 1996)<br /><br>3) Psychotic symptoms and dthe distress caused by them as measured with the<br /><br>Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE)<br /><br>4) Theory of mind - a social cognition task- as measured with the Hinting<br /><br>Task (Corcoran et al. 2005).<br /><br>5) Theory of mind as measured with the Degraded Facial Affect Recognition<br /><br>(van't Wout et al., 2004, 2007).<br /><br>6) Metacognition, as measured with the Metacognitions Questionnaire (Wells &<br /><br>Cartwright-Hatton, 2004).</p><br>