Enhancing Cognitive Training Through Exercise After a First Schizophrenia Episode
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 48
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) overall composite score
研究概览
简要总结
This is a randomized controlled 6-month trial of the efficacy of a novel intervention combining neuroplasticity-based cognitive training with aerobic exercise, compared to the same systematic cognitive training alone. The primary treatment targets are overall cognitive deficit level and independent living skills. The investigators hypothesize that combining neuroplasticity-based computerized cognitive training and neurotrophin-enhancing physical exercise will produce large cognitive and functional improvements, even relative to cognitive training alone. Adding aerobic exercise to a cognitive training program will have the additional benefit of helping to ameliorate medication side effects, reduce the risk for developing metabolic syndrome, and help to prevent the deterioration in physical health that usually follows the onset of schizophrenia and its pharmacologic treatment. The investigators target the period shortly after a first episode of schizophrenia to maximize the generalization of cognitive improvement to functional outcome, before chronic disability is established.
详细描述
The Cognitive Training and Exercise intervention involves 24 weeks of systematic computerized cognitive training, 4 hours per week, plus aerobic exercise, four 30 minute sessions per week. The first 12 weeks involves neurocognitive training, using auditory training exercises from Posit Science Brain HQ. The second 12 weeks involves social cognitive training, using the Posit Science SocialVille modules. Aerobic exercise occurs as two 30-minute sessions at the clinic and two at home weekly. Intensity of aerobic exercise is tailored to maintain an individualized target heart rate zone and is monitored by a heart rate recorder. A weekly one-hour Bridging Skills Group with other members of the treatment condition is designed to aid generalization of training to everyday life situations.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 45 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •a first episode of a psychotic illness that began within the past two years;
- •a diagnosis by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, mainly depressed type, or schizophreniform disorder;
- •between 18 and 45 years of age;
- •sufficient acculturation and fluency in the English language to avoid invalidating research measures of thought, language, and speech disorder or of verbal cognitive abilities; and
- •residence within commuting distance of the Aftercare Research Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
排除标准
- •evidence of a known neurological disorder (e.g., epilepsy) or significant head injury;
- •evidence of alcohol or substance use disorder within the six months prior to the first episode and evidence that substance abuse triggered the psychotic episode or makes the schizophrenia diagnosis ambiguous;
- •mental retardation, i.e. premorbid intelligence quotient less than 70.
研究组 & 干预措施
Cognitive Training and Exercise
24 weeks of systematic computerized cognitive training, 4 hours per week, plus aerobic exercise, four 30 minute sessions per week. The first 12 weeks involves neurocognitive training, using auditory training exercises from Posit Science Brain HQ. The 2nd 12 weeks involves social cognitive training, using the Posit Science SocialVille modules. Aerobic exercise occurs as two 30-minute sessions at the clinic and two at home weekly. Intensity of aerobic exercise is tailored to maintain an individualized target heart rate zone and is monitored by a heart rate recorder. A weekly one-hour Bridging Skills Group is designed to aid generalization of training to everyday life situations. All members receive individual case management and supportive psychotherapy, and family psychoeducation.
干预措施: Case management and supportive psychotherapy (Behavioral)
Cognitive Training and Exercise
24 weeks of systematic computerized cognitive training, 4 hours per week, plus aerobic exercise, four 30 minute sessions per week. The first 12 weeks involves neurocognitive training, using auditory training exercises from Posit Science Brain HQ. The 2nd 12 weeks involves social cognitive training, using the Posit Science SocialVille modules. Aerobic exercise occurs as two 30-minute sessions at the clinic and two at home weekly. Intensity of aerobic exercise is tailored to maintain an individualized target heart rate zone and is monitored by a heart rate recorder. A weekly one-hour Bridging Skills Group is designed to aid generalization of training to everyday life situations. All members receive individual case management and supportive psychotherapy, and family psychoeducation.
干预措施: Family psychoeducation (Behavioral)
Cognitive Training and Exercise
24 weeks of systematic computerized cognitive training, 4 hours per week, plus aerobic exercise, four 30 minute sessions per week. The first 12 weeks involves neurocognitive training, using auditory training exercises from Posit Science Brain HQ. The 2nd 12 weeks involves social cognitive training, using the Posit Science SocialVille modules. Aerobic exercise occurs as two 30-minute sessions at the clinic and two at home weekly. Intensity of aerobic exercise is tailored to maintain an individualized target heart rate zone and is monitored by a heart rate recorder. A weekly one-hour Bridging Skills Group is designed to aid generalization of training to everyday life situations. All members receive individual case management and supportive psychotherapy, and family psychoeducation.
干预措施: Cognitive training (Behavioral)
Cognitive Training and Exercise
24 weeks of systematic computerized cognitive training, 4 hours per week, plus aerobic exercise, four 30 minute sessions per week. The first 12 weeks involves neurocognitive training, using auditory training exercises from Posit Science Brain HQ. The 2nd 12 weeks involves social cognitive training, using the Posit Science SocialVille modules. Aerobic exercise occurs as two 30-minute sessions at the clinic and two at home weekly. Intensity of aerobic exercise is tailored to maintain an individualized target heart rate zone and is monitored by a heart rate recorder. A weekly one-hour Bridging Skills Group is designed to aid generalization of training to everyday life situations. All members receive individual case management and supportive psychotherapy, and family psychoeducation.
干预措施: Aerobic exercise (Behavioral)
Cognitive Training
24 weeks of systematic computerized cognitive training, 4 hours per week, plus aerobic exercise, four 30 minute sessions per week. The first 12 weeks involves neurocognitive training, using auditory training exercises from Posit Science Brain HQ. The 2nd 12 weeks involves social cognitive training, using the Posit Science SocialVille modules. A weekly one-hour Bridging Skills Group is designed to aid generalization of training to everyday life situations. All members receive individual case management and supportive psychotherapy, and family psychoeducation.
干预措施: Case management and supportive psychotherapy (Behavioral)
Cognitive Training
24 weeks of systematic computerized cognitive training, 4 hours per week, plus aerobic exercise, four 30 minute sessions per week. The first 12 weeks involves neurocognitive training, using auditory training exercises from Posit Science Brain HQ. The 2nd 12 weeks involves social cognitive training, using the Posit Science SocialVille modules. A weekly one-hour Bridging Skills Group is designed to aid generalization of training to everyday life situations. All members receive individual case management and supportive psychotherapy, and family psychoeducation.
干预措施: Family psychoeducation (Behavioral)
Cognitive Training
24 weeks of systematic computerized cognitive training, 4 hours per week, plus aerobic exercise, four 30 minute sessions per week. The first 12 weeks involves neurocognitive training, using auditory training exercises from Posit Science Brain HQ. The 2nd 12 weeks involves social cognitive training, using the Posit Science SocialVille modules. A weekly one-hour Bridging Skills Group is designed to aid generalization of training to everyday life situations. All members receive individual case management and supportive psychotherapy, and family psychoeducation.
干预措施: Cognitive training (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) overall composite score
时间窗: 6 months
The overall composite score from the MCCB is a summary of cognitive performance across seven domains.
次要结局
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)(6 months)
- Independent Living Skills Survey(6 months)
- Prosody Task(6 months)
- Global Functioning Scale(6 months)
- Quality of Life Scale(6 months)
- Independent Living rating from Role Functioning Scale(6 months)
- Cardiorespiratory fitness(6 months)
- University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Performance-Based Skills Assessment (UPSA)(6 months)
- Facial Emotion Identification Test(6 months)
- Modified Social Adjustment Scale - Work Outcome(6 months)
- Role Functioning Scale: Work Productivity, Social Relationships, Family Relationships(6 months)
研究者
Keith Nuechterlein, Ph.D.
Professor in Residence
University of California, Los Angeles