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To see if brief therapy enhances the pleasure levels of the patients with schizophrenia.

Efficacy of Brief Anticipatory Pleasure Skills Training on Anhedonia and Anticipatory Pleasure Among Patients with Schizophrenia

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2022/12/047938
Enrollment
20
Registered
2022-12-07
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2023-01-09

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Health Condition 1: F202- Catatonic schizophrenia Health Condition 2: F201- Disorganized schizophrenia Health Condition 3: F208- Other schizophrenia Health Condition 4: F200- Paranoid schizophrenia Health Condition 5: F205- Residual schizophrenia Health Condition 6: F209- Schizophrenia, unspecified Health Condition 7: F203- Undifferentiated schizophrenia

Interventions

Intervention1: Experimental Group- Receiving Brief Anticipatory Pleasure Skills Training as the intervention: This group of patients receive the treatment as usual along with anticipatory pleasure ski

Sponsors

Central of Psychiatry
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia (F20.0-F20.9) according to International Classification of Diseases- Diagnostic Criteria for Research (DCR)-Tenth Edition (ICD-10. DCR. World health organization, 1993). 2. Patients with cut-off scores of >2 (mild) on each item of anhedonia-asociality scale of Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS). 3. Depression is ruled out using total score 4. Educated at least up to primary level 5. Patients who can speak and understand Hindi. 6. Patients who will give consent for the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Those who have other comorbid psychiatric illness. 2. Those who have a history of organicity, brain injury and mental retardation. 3. Those who have any behavioral problems and predominantly positive symptoms that may interfere with the intervention.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Anhedonia with Scale for Assessment for Negative Symptoms (SANS) Social Anhedonia with Revised Social Anhedonia Scale (RSAS) Physical Anhedonia with Revised Physical Anhedonia Scale (RPAS). Anticipatory Pleasure with Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS).Timepoint: Pre-intervention (a week before session one) Post-intervention(two weeks after session 5) 2 weeks follow-up after post-intervention—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
NILTimepoint: NIL—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Aniruddha Mukherjee

Central Institute of Psychiatry

preetiguptacp@gmail.com8709396119

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026