Prospective Memory Training for Inpatient Older adults with Severe Mental Illness

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Condition 1: Severe psychiatric disorders including the spectrum of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Condition 2: Bipolar Disorder.; Schizophrenia; Bipolar disorder

• Registration Number: IRCT20230202057308N1
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Last Update Posted: 13 March 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Pending
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

A) the age of the participants is 55 years and older,
B) Being of Iranian origin (mother tongue is Farsi),
C) suffering from severe psychiatric disorders (according to the definition, and using DSM 5 criteria) (schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorder,
D) have at least 5 years of history of the disorder,
E) have the desire to participate in the study and give informed consent ,and
F) do not have cognitive impairment (have obtained a score of at least 23 on the MMSE scale).

Exclusion Criteria

A) There are coexisting psychiatric disorders, including anxiety and mood disorders,
B) There is a history of ECT treatment in the last 12 months.
C) There is a history of alcohol and drug use in the last 12 months,
D) Suffering from physical diseases that require treatment at the moment (including diabetes, heart disease, blood pressure) (these diseases)Due to their effect on cognitive functions, especially prospective memory function, they should be controlled and removed in the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Prospective memory performance: Prospective memory is the memory related to doing tasks in the future (for example, remembering to take medicine at the appointed time), which tasks are divided into two types of temporal and event tasks. Timepoint: One week before the intervention, 6, 18 and 30 weeks after the intervention. Method of measurement: Virtual Week Game: a computer-based tool designed to assess and enhance factors underlying prospective memory. The virtual week game simulates a number of PM tasks similar to real, everyday tasks associated with prospective memory tasks (for example, remembering to take an antibiotic pill at certain times of the day or returning a book to the library). The game paradigm has a general storyline for seven virtual days and several types of time- and event-dependent PM tasks for each day of the virtual week. Each virtual day includes a dedicated story with a number of PM assignments. The paradigm also allows the experimenter to record the participants' performance.