Evaluation of Social Skills Intervention on Cognitive Function in Schizophrenia

NCT ID: NCT02134418

Last Updated: 2015-02-04

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

35 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-03-31

Study Completion Date

2016-03-31

Brief Summary

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Intervention aimed at improving understanding of irony in social situations by using movies and comic strip will improve theory of mind.

Detailed Description

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The overreaching goal of this study is to examine the influence of short CBT of irony comprehension on hemispheric involvement of adults with Schizophrenia. To obtain this goal a three phase study have been designed.

In the first phase all participants will be asked to fill out questionnaires screening for, cognitive abilities (TONI-3 third edition), vocabulary (Hebrew adaptation of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition, WAIS 3 HEB, Wechsler 1997), executive function capabilities and figurative language understanding (irony and metaphor) .Theory of Mind comprehension will also be assessed by using The Hinting Test (Corcoran et al.1995).

Hemispheric processing will be examined by two behavioral hemispheric experiments using split visual field paradigm. The subject sits in front of a computer screen, reads a prime sentence, and reacts to a lateralized target word.

In the first experiment- Idioms experiment, the target word in each trail would be related to the meaning of a preceding prime idiom or associated to its literal meaning .The participant is instructed to indicate as rapidly and accurately as possible whether the target word stimulus is a meaningful word or non- word. In the second experiment- irony experiment, the target word in each trail would be a literal, ironic or unrelated ending to the preceding prime sentence .Subjects would be asked to relate to the target word and to indicate as rapidly and accurately as possible whether the target word stimulus formed a meaningful expression with the preceding prime. Stimulus presentation and response would be controlled and recorded by Super-Lab 4.5 software.

The first phase will be carried out in 1-2 sessions.

In the second phase subjects will participate in a social intervention program for comprehension of verbal irony. Over the course of intervention participants will analyze and discuss short film scenario's that end with an ironic statement, and will experience completing short scenario's that contain irony. Intervention will include 5 sessions, 3-5 subjects will participate in each group.

In the third phase participants will undergo the Irony behavioral hemispheric experiment to examine changes in hemispheric processing when exposed to irony after treatment, the irony and metaphor questioners and the Hinting test. This phase will be carried out in one session.

35 subjects will participate in the study, 20 in the study group and 15 in the control group.

Subjects in the control group will watch the short film scenario's that end with an ironic statement and rank each video for its comprehensibility and their level of enjoyment.

Conditions

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Schizophrenia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Irony CBT training

CBT of irony comprehension

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

CBT of irony comprehension

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Over the course of intervention participants will analyze and discuss short film scenario's that end with an ironic statement, and will experience completing short scenario's that contain irony. Intervention will include 5 sessions, each session will take 40 minutes, 3-5 subjects will participate in each group.

No Intervention

No Intervention

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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CBT of irony comprehension

Over the course of intervention participants will analyze and discuss short film scenario's that end with an ironic statement, and will experience completing short scenario's that contain irony. Intervention will include 5 sessions, each session will take 40 minutes, 3-5 subjects will participate in each group.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Clinical diagnosis of Schizophrenia
* Native Hebrew speakers
* Right handed ( subjects report)
* Without learning difficulties and who have completed 12 years of schooling (subjects report)
* Without neurological disorders ( subjects report)
* Normal or corrected to normal vision ( subjects report)

Exclusion Criteria

* People suffering from any disabilities or handicap which limits their judgment
* With a guardian
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Clalit Health Services

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Dror Dolfin, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Clalit Health Services

Locations

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Brull- Tel Aviv Community Mental Health Center

Tel Aviv, Select Your State, Israel

Site Status

Countries

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Israel

Central Contacts

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Dror Dolfin

Role: CONTACT

972505406993

Facility Contacts

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Dror Dolfin

Role: primary

972505406993

Other Identifiers

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0126-13-COM

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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