NCT03449394

Effect of 4-session Metacognitive Training in Chinese Adult Outpatients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Major Depressive Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 113 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Psychological studies have shown that individuals tend to attribute causes of positive and negative events differently. Specifically, individuals hold an internalising or externalising bias of attribution which, in the case of particular patient groups, was found to polarize to the extreme. Such extreme attributional styles have found to have a direct impact on emotions, leading to a waning course of psychiatric disorders. This project aims to further examine the theoretical links between attributions and emotions using a transdiagnostic approach, and the effect of a 4-session process-based intervention on attributional biases.

Conditions

• Delusions
• Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Metacognitive Training	4 sessions of Metacognitive Training using 4 treatment modules each targeting different cognitive biases

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-01
• Primary completion: 2019-11-01
• Completion: 2019-11-01
• First posted: 2018-02-28
• Last updated: 2020-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong