Improving Cognition in Severe Mental Illness: Cognitive Remediation Training combined with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, a feasibility study.

Completed

Conditions: Psychiatric Disorders
Severe Mental Illness
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Registration Number: NL-OMON46594

Lead Sponsor: entis (Groningen)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

Service users can be included if they meet the criteria for Severe Mental Illness (Delespaul et al., 2013):
- A psychiatric disorder that requires care/treatment (no symptomatic remission);
- Severe disabilities in social and/or societal functioning (no functional remission);
- Disabilities are the result of a psychiatric disorder
- Disabilities are structural (at least several years);
- Coordinated professional care is necessary to realize a treatment plan. ;Each participant in the study should sign informed consent, and only those who are fully capable of making their own decision regarding participation in the study will be included. Additional criteria for inclusion are an age between 18 to 55 and sufficient mastery of Dutch language.

Exclusion Criteria

• Metal implants inside the skull or eye;
• Severe scalp skin lesions;
• A history of previous seizures;

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The primary outcome measure of this study is the feasibility of Circuits and<br /><br>Compensatory Cognitive Training for cognitive training in service users with<br /><br>severe mental illness and low levels of cognitive functioning. This will be<br /><br>measured using a self-designed feasibility assessment. The program that best<br /><br>meets our criteria for feasibility will be applied in a randomized controlled<br /><br>trial for the improvement of cognitive functioning in service users with SMI.<br /><br>For exploratory reasons only, an observational assessment for cognitive<br /><br>abilities is performed for each participant before and after the training<br /><br>period, to look at possible improvements in cognition. </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures