Health Condition 1: null- Only remitted schizophrenia patients were included in this study. Hence they were able to focus on training program. their symptoms of schizophrenia were in control.
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Affect Recognition Training: This is facial emotion training program. It is consisted with 12 sessions for twice a week sessions for 12 weeks. Basically it teaches how to identify facia
Sponsors
Indian Council of Social Science Research
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Persons who give consent for the study 2. Educated at least up to 7th standard and should be able to read Kannada. 3. Persons who meet the criteria of schizophrenia according to ICD 10. 4. PANSS score of 5. Clinical Global impression Severity(CGI-S) 6. Hindi Mental State Examination score >24 7. On stable dose of antipsychotic medication for last 4 weeks
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients with comorbid neurological disorder such as seizure disorder, stroke, head trauma or mental retardation. 2. Patients with comorbid depression or OCD on clinical interview. 3. Patients meeting criteria for substance dependence other than nicotine in the last 6 weeks. 4. During the intervention if patient shows signs of relapse, PANSS will be repeated and if he/she scores more than 70 in PANSS, he/she will be dropped from the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Primary outcome is improvement in facial emotion recognition. Timepoint: Baseline to post assessment (one and half month) and the conducting two to three months of followup after the post assessment | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| secondary outcome is improvement in attention and working memoryTimepoint: Baseline to post assessment (one and half month) and the conducting two to three months of followup after the post assessment | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactUMESH THONSE
KEM Hospital Research Center
Outcome results
None listed