Retrieval Practice in Patients With Schizophrenia : an Exploratory Study Using Descriptive Stories
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 暂停
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Number of items properly recalled
研究概览
简要总结
When people are tested on a previously learned material, they will later remember it better even when compared to a condition where they can re-study it. This phenomenon is called retrieval practice and is supported by an extensive research literature mostly carried out in normal students. This paradigm begins to be used in cognitive remediation programs in patients suffering from memory difficulties.
The objective of this study is to investigate whether retrieval practice is spared in patients with schizophrenia.
If effective, this method could be used in cognitive remediation programs.
Since episodic memory difficulties are supposed to be secondary to deficits in the initiation/elaboration of efficient encoding and retrieval strategies our hypothesis is that retrieval practice is spared in schizophrenia.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 60 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •French is the native language, or acquired before 5 years old
- •People must be able to understand and follow the trial instructions
- •Specific inclusion criteria (for patients) :
- •Diagnostic of schizophrenia, according to the DSM -5, clinically stable
- •The treatment must remain unchanged during the trial
排除标准
- •Severe or acute cerebral disease
- •Other actual psychiatric disorder
- •Use of drugs with high anticholinergic effect
- •Irregular use of benzodiazepines medication, or high dose of benzodiazepin (more than 2 mg of lorazepam per day or equivalent)
- •Inappropriate use of drugs
- •Specific exclusion criteria (for healthy subjects) :
- •Diagnostic of schizophrenia of a relative up to the third degree
结局指标
主要结局
Number of items properly recalled
时间窗: Final test : 2 days after the first experimental session
- The aim is to investigate the retrieval practice effect using descriptive stories and free-recall tests without feedback in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. In the first phase (encoding), people study 2 short prose passages covering general scientific topics. In the second phase (initial test), they recall one text ("test" condition) or restudy the other one ("re-study" condition). In the third phase (final test) which takes place 2 days later, they recall both texts. - We will compare in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls final performance recall (number of items properly recalled) for information studied and recalled ("test" condition) to those for information studied and then re-studied ("re-study" condition).
次要结局
- Difference between final performance recall and memory span score(Final test : 2 days after the first experimental session)