NCT02399020

Social Cognition and Interaction Training for Adults With Psychotic Disorders: An Open Pilot Study in Finland

Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) for Adults With Psychotic Disorder: An Open Pilot Study in Finland

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 33 (actual)
• Sponsor: Helsinki University Central Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

33 individuals with a psychotic disorder were given 22-24 sessions weekly or twice weekly of Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) and evaluated at the baseline and after the intervention. Main outcome was improvement in social cognition according to specific measures of facial emotion identification, Theory of Mind, attributional bias, social cognitive accuracy and metacognitive overconfidence.

Detailed description

33 clinically stable in- and outpatients with chart diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or unspecified nonorganic psychosis, aged 18-56 years, were given 22-24 weekly or twice weekly sessions of a manualized group treatment for improvement of social cognition, Social Cognition and Interaction Training (1,2). Main outcome was defined as improvement in social cognition according to specific measures of facial emotion identification, Theory of Mind, attributional bias, social cognitive accuracy and metacognitive overconfidence.Emotion perception was measured with the Facial Emotion Identification Task (FEIT) (3); Theory of Mind was measured with the Hinting Task (4) and attributional bias with the Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire-Ambiguous Items (AIHQ-A) (5). In addition, broad-based social cognitive accuracy, attributional bias and metacognitive overconfidence was measured with the Social Cognition Screening Questionnaire. All the measures were evaluated at the baseline and immediately after the intervention. Changes in total scores for the FEIT and Hinting Task, and the three subscales of AIHQ-A and SCSQ were analysed separately using paired samples t-test in IBM SPSS Statistics version 21.

Conditions

• Psychotic Disorder
• Cognitive Function 1, Social

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Social Cognition and Interaction Training	manualized group treatment providing training in facial emotion recognition, understanding the role of emotion in social situations, training with videoed vignettes to avoid jumping to conclusions in order to avoid attributional biases, tolerating ambiguity and distinguishing facts from guesses, skill consolidation and generalization to everyday life situations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2015-03-26
• Last updated: 2015-03-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland