Reading the mind of the avatar: Social Cognition Training in Virtual Reality (DiSCoVR) for people with a psychotic disorder

Dynamic Interactive Social Cognition Training in Virtual Reality (DiSCoVR) for people with a psychotic disorder: a single-blind randomized controlled trial

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON24564

Enrollment

100

Registered

2017-12-05

Start date

2018-04-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Virtual Reality, Social Cognition, Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Social Functioning, Emotion Recognition, Theory of Mind. Virtual Reality, Sociale cognitie, schizofrenie, psychose, sociaal functioneren, emotieherkenning, theory of mind

Interventions

Both arms receive treatment as usual. In addition, the DiSCoVR group receives a 16-session (8 weeks, twice per week) individual intervention aimed at improving social cognition. Participants in this g

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - Age 18 - 65. - Indication of impaired social cognition by treating clinician. - Written informed consent. - Diagnosis of psychotic disorder, as determined by a structured clinical interview in the past three years or as determined by a diagnostic interview (MINI plus) at baseline

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - An estimated IQ below 70, and/or a diagnosis of intellectual disability. - Insufficient proficiency of the Dutch language. - (Photosensitive) epilepsy

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Social Cognition (emotion perception, social perception and Theory of Mind) Change in scores (from baseline to post-treatment) on Ekman 60 Faces (emotion perception), The Awareness of Social Inferece Test (TASIT; theory of mind and social perception).	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
- Social cognition scores (Ekman 60 Faces, TASIT) at follow-up, in comparison to post-treatment. - Social functioning, as measured using an interview (PSP) and experience sampling (custom questionnaire). Experience sampling will inquire about participants’ emotions and their (current and recent) experience of social situations (e.g., are they in company, how enjoyable is this social contact). - Other secondary outcomes include self-esteem (SERS), social anxiety (SIAS), anxiety (BAI), depression (BDI), stress (PSS), psychotic symptoms (PANSS), information processing (TMT) and paranoia (GPTS). In the sessions, some additional behavioural and subjective experience data is collected, e.g., cyber sickness (SSQ; both groups), subjective emotions and stress (VRelax), behaviour and performance (e.g., distance from avatars, % of correct answers in exercises) in and experience of virtual environment (DiSCoVR), state anxiety (STAI; DiSCoVR), feature binding (picture task; DiSCoVR), and dissociation (CADSS; DiSCoVR).	—

Measure

Time frame

- Social cognition scores (Ekman 60 Faces, TASIT) at follow-up, in comparison to post-treatment. - Social functioning, as measured using an interview (PSP) and experience sampling (custom questionnaire). Experience sampling will inquire about participants’ emotions and their (current and recent) experience of social situations (e.g., are they in company, how enjoyable is this social contact). - Other secondary outcomes include self-esteem (SERS), social anxiety (SIAS), anxiety (BAI), depression (BDI), stress (PSS), psychotic symptoms (PANSS), information processing (TMT) and paranoia (GPTS). In the sessions, some additional behavioural and subjective experience data is collected, e.g., cyber sickness (SSQ; both groups), subjective emotions and stress (VRelax), behaviour and performance (e.g., distance from avatars, % of correct answers in exercises) in and experience of virtual environment (DiSCoVR), state anxiety (STAI; DiSCoVR), feature binding (picture task; DiSCoVR), and dissociation (CADSS; DiSCoVR).

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Contacts

Public ContactG.H.M. (Marieke) Pijnenborg

Clinical Psychology & Experimental Psychopathology, Faculty of Behavioral & Social Sciences, University of Groningen

g.h.m.pijnenborg@rug.nl+31 50 36 34637

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)