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Cognitive Remediation in Older Inpatients with Schizophrenia: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Mental and behavioral disorders
Registration Number
KCT0002609
Lead Sponsor
Yongin Mental Hospital
Brief Summary

Cognitive remediation (CR) was easily provided and well received (drop-out rates = 5.3%) by older psychiatric inpatients. Compared to the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Only (PR-Only) or Treatmet as Usual (TAU) patients, patients in the CR + PR group showed greater improvement in executive functioning. Compared to TAU patients, CR + PR and PR-only patients showed greater improvement in logical memory. More patients in the CR + PR group improved clinically significantly in executive functioning and logical memory, compared with the PR-only and TAU patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
57
Inclusion Criteria

The diagnoses of the 57 inpatients with schizophrenia (32 males and 25 females) were confirmed by the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menal Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) Axis I disorders. All patients had been on stable medication regimens for the previous 30 days.

Exclusion Criteria

Participants were excluded if they had any of the following: substance use, serious traumatic brain injury or other neurological disorder, or acute psychiatric symptoms.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional Study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
eurocognition(Attention, Processing spped: Trail making test A(TMT-A), Coding. Working memory: letter-number sequencing test. Verbal logical memory: Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) logical memory I,II. Executive functioning: Wisconsin card sorting test(WCST), Trail making test B(TMT-B)
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Psychiatric Symptoms: Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Premodbid IQ estimate: Wechsler Adult Intelligent Scale -Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) information subscale
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