Cognitive Functioning Related to Job Tenure Among Patients With Schizophrenia

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00838123

Enrollment

Registered

2009-02-06

Start date

2008-08-31

Completion date

2008-12-31

Last updated

2009-02-06

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Conditions

Schizophrenia

Brief summary

The aim of this research is to explore which cognitive function would affect the job tenure among people with schizophrenia. The investigators plan to recruit 60 people diagnosed with schizophrenia and divide into two groups, employment and unemployment. The investigators will use several cognitive function tests to collect their cognitive functions and PANSS to evaluate their psychotic symptoms. And then the investigators will compare and analysis the data through statistic software. Finally, the investigators will have the answer about if cognitive functions would affect the job tenure among people with schizophrenia. And the investigators hope that we could get the predict factor of cognitive function to predict the successful employment in future.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 45 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* schizophrenia, 18\ 44y/o

Exclusion criteria

* substance abuse

Outcome results