NCT03317769

Creating Live Interactions to Mitigate Barriers

Creating Live Interactions to Mitigate Barriers (CLIMB): A Mobile Intervention to Improve Social Functioning in People With Schizophrenia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 31 (actual)
• Sponsor: Posit Science Corporation · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a validation study to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and impact of a mobile psychosocial intervention to enhance social functioning in people with schizophrenia.

Detailed description

The goal of this study is to employ an innovative and evidence-based mobile intervention that includes a neuroscience-informed computerized social cognition training program, a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant videoconferencing tool that we will use for psychoeducational group therapy, and peer-to-peer secure social networking for individuals with schizophrenia, in a parallel arm, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess feasibility and initial efficacy, to investigate the intervention's effects on symptoms, social cognition, and quality of life, and to prepare for a large-scale efficacy trial in adults with schizophrenia.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Computerized Plasticity-Based Adaptive Cognitive Training	Training on computerized exercises that targets social cognition for 2 hours per week.
OTHER	Commercially available computerized training	Training on computerized, casual video games for 2 hours per week.
OTHER	Optimized social skills training	Group-video calls with Specialist for 1 hour per week where participants can interact with Specialist individually or as a group. Specialist will provide guidance, support and feedback, and send links and articles about information and topics discussed during the video calls.
OTHER	Unstructured support group sessions	Unstructured support group-video calls for 1 hour per week. The Specialist will not engage with participants (eg. providing participants with links to articles and additional support) or provide guidance for the group discussion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-01
• Primary completion: 2019-05-31
• Completion: 2019-06-06
• First posted: 2017-10-23
• Last updated: 2019-07-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States