Development of Manualized Metacognitive Therapy for Hallucination
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 60
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Changes in the severity of and insight into the hallucinatory experiences of patients with schizophrenia experiencing hallucination
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The study is intended to develop a metacognitive intervention to assist individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia to have better insight into the hallucinatory experiences. The primary focus of therapy will be promoting metacognitive insight into the phenomenology of hallucinations and their cognitive and biological underpinnings. It will be followed by helping patients to relate the learning with their hallucinatory experiences. The whole module will be of 9 sessions of 45-60 minutes
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Coin toss, Lottery, toss of dice, shuffling cards etc
- Masking
- Open Label
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18.00 Year(s) to 50.00 Year(s) (—)
- Sex
- All
Inclusion Criteria
- •1.Diagnosis of paranoid or undifferentiated schizophrenia 2.Age between 18-50 years 3.Education, at least, at primary level 4.Conversant in Hindi and/or English.
Exclusion Criteria
- ••Presence of Formal Thought Disorder •ECT in past 1 month •Alcohol or substance dependence.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Changes in the severity of and insight into the hallucinatory experiences of patients with schizophrenia experiencing hallucination
Time Frame: Base-line, 5 weeks after baseline assessment (post-intervention), 9 weeks after baseline assessment (Follow-up)
Secondary Outcomes
- Cognitive functions(The assessment will be done at baseline only)
- Global assessment of functioning(Base-line, 5 weeks after baseline assessment (post-intervention), 9 weeks after baseline assessment (Follow-up))
- Severity of positive and negative symptoms(Base-line, 5 weeks after baseline assessment (post-intervention), 9 weeks after baseline assessment (Follow-up))
- Perceived sense of recovery(Base-line, 5 weeks after baseline assessment (post-intervention), 9 weeks after baseline assessment (Follow-up))
