Schizophrenia Mental and Behavioural Disorders Schizophrenia
Conditions
Interventions
1. Intervention group attends 12 weekly sessions of 1 - 1.5 hours duration. The first 4 meetings (1 h each session) are dedicated to recognizing facial emotions. This includes a pretest and posttest,
the user must determine as quickly as possible what emotion the face will change to).
The next 8 sessions (1 h each) include watching a short interactive animated cartoon in which a couple invites the
Sponsors
Servizo Galego de Saúde (Galician Health Authority)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients who voluntarily agree to participate in the study 2. Aged 18-50 years 3. Diagnosis of schizophrenia (DSM-5) 4. Clinically stable 5. No comorbidity with other psychiatric or neurological diseases (International Neuropsychiatric Interview-MINI) or current substance abuse 6. Score at F. Happé´s Strange Stories test lower than 14
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Psychiatric, neurological comorbidity, or active substance disorder 2. Acute schizophrenic symptomatology 3. Suicidal ideation 4. ToM score in F. Happé´s Strange Stories >14
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Patients are going to be studied with the following battery prior to randomisation and 1 month after the intervention. 1. Ekman 60 Faces Test (Ekman, 1976): A computer test based on the facial recognition of emotional expressions. The test contains 60 photographs of faces with expressions of the 6 basic emotions: anger, disgust, sadness, fear, surprise and happiness. 2. Hinting Task (Corcoran, Mercer, & Frith, 1995) (Spanish version of Gil, 2012): The individual must identify what the story’s character really meant to say. 3. Recognition of Faux Pas (Baron-Cohen, 1997): The participant must identify the embarrassing situations or gaffes. 4. Strange Stories of F. Happé (Spanish Version of Pousa, 1999): The participant must understand the emotions, intentions and thoughts of the characters in the various stories. 5. Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS) (Kay, Fiszbein and Opler, 1987): Assesses positive and negative symptom severity. 6. Lahera G, Boada L, Pousa E, Mirapeix I, Morón-Nozaleda G, Marinas L, Gisbert L, Pamiàs M, Parellada M. Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC): Spanish Validation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2014). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Prior to randomisation and 1 month after intervention, both groups (e-Motional Training & TAU) will be studied with: 1. Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ) (Combs, Penn, Wicher and Waldheter, 2007): Assesses attributional biases in 3 types of situations (ambiguous, intentional and accidental). 2. The Social Functioning Scale. The development and validation of a new scale of social adjustment for use in family intervention programmes with schizophrenic patients. Birchwood M, Smith J, Cochrane R, Wetton S, Copestake S. Br J Psychiatry. 1990 Dec;157:853-9. Spanish version: Torres A, Olivares JM. Validation of the Spanish version of the Social Functioning Scale. Actas Esp Psiquiatr. 2005 Jul-Aug;33(4):216-20. | — |
Countries
Spain
Contacts
Public ContactAlejandro Garcia-Caballero
Outcome results
None listed