RCT Social Cognition Training and Therapeutic Alliance Focused Therapy for Persons With Severe Mental Illness

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

158 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-01-31

Study Completion Date

2018-07-31

Brief Summary

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The study evaluates the effectiveness of the social cognition and interaction training (SCIT), in comparison to both therapeutic alliance focused therapy (TAFT) and treatment as usual (TAU) among persons with severe mental illness. Study purpose: 1) Assess the effectiveness of the SCIT and TAFT interventions, 2) Assess the processes that putatively contribute to the SCIT and TAFT outcomes. Method: A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) with approximately one hundred and fifty persons with severe mental illness will be carried out in different psychiatric rehabilitation units and clinics in Israel. To assess the relative effectiveness of the SCIT and TAFT interventions with persons with severe mental illness, both interventions will be compared to treatment as usual (TAU). Clinicians will be trained in both interventions, and outcome measures, including social quality of life and social functioning, as well as mediating processes, including the identification of affective states, ToM, attribution errors and therapeutic alliance, will be assessed. Cognitive functioning and symptom severity will be treated as covariates. Statistical analyses will include analysis of variance which takes into consideration attrition, effect size, mediation processes and covariates.

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Detailed Description

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Social cognition has become an important treatment target for people with schizophrenia since it has been found to be a strong predictor of functional outcome. Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) is a manualized, group-based intervention that was developed to address the three core deficits in social cognition associated with severe mental illness: emotion perception, Theory of Mind (ToM), and attributional style. SCIT has demonstrated efficacy in improving social cognition and social functioning in both inpatient and outpatient samples. In addition, evidence also shows that the therapeutic alliance is related to various treatment outcomes. Thus, both the SCIT and a therapeutic alliance focused therapy (TAFT) may both affect social cognition and social function, but through different pathways. TAFT was chosen, as comparison to the SCIT, in order to control for interpersonal relationship variables. In this way, the proposed study will evaluate empirically whether the specific techniques for ameliorating the social cognition of persons with severe mental illness that make-up the SCIT enhance social functioning beyond what is achieved through the effective interpersonal ingredients of the therapeutic alliance. Study purpose: 1) Assess the effectiveness of the SCIT and TAFT interventions, 2) Assess the processes that putatively contribute to the SCIT and TAFT outcomes. Method: A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) with one hundred and fifty persons with severe mental illness will be carried out in different psychiatric rehabilitation units and clinics in Israel. To assess the relative effectiveness of the SCIT and TAFT interventions with persons with severe mental illness, both interventions will be compared to treatment as usual (TAU). Clinicians will be trained in both interventions, and outcome measures, including social quality of life and social functioning, as well as mediating processes, including the identification of affective states, ToM, attribution errors and therapeutic alliance, will be assessed. Cognitive functioning and symptom severity will be treated as covariates. Statistical analyses will include analysis of variance which takes into consideration attrition, effect size, mediation processes and covariates.

Conditions

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Mental Disorders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Social Cognition and Interaction Trainin

Social Cognition and Interaction Training: psychosocial group intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SCIT

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

psychosocial group intervention

Therapeutic Alliance Focused Therapy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

TAFT

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

psychosocial group intervention

Treatment as Usual

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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SCIT

psychosocial group intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

TAFT

psychosocial group intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Social Cognition and Interaction Training Therapeutic Alliance Focused Therapy

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Diagnosis of severe mental disorders (schizophrenia, schizoaffective, bi-polar, depression).
* Ability to provide informed consent.
* Ability to read and write in Hebrew.