NCT03882619

Effectiveness of Using Calligraphic Activity to People With Schizophrenia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To examine the effects of calligraphy activity on symptoms, attention, emotion, and quality of life in people with schizophrenia. We hypothesized that through a six-month intervention using calligraphy activity, people with schizophrenia will have their symptoms decreased, attention improved, emotion enhanced, and quality of life increased. This study will adopt single-blind, randomized controlled trial, and 160 people with schizophrenia will be recruited in this study. They will be randomly assigned to either a calligraphy activity group (treatment group; n=80) or an occupational activity group (control group; n=80). Participants will complete assessments at pretest, posttest, and 3-month follow-up using the following instruments: Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Chu's Attention Test, The Taiwanese version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-T), WHO questionnaire on the Quality of Life, Brief Form (WHOQOL-BREF), and Chinese Depression Anxiety Stress Scales(DASS21).

Conditions

• Schizophrenia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Calligraphy	Participants will (1) detect the emotion him or herself; (2) do the calligraphy activity by writing positive terms (e.g., peace, life); (3) detect emotion again; (4) share the experience with group members.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-01
• Primary completion: 2020-11-30
• Completion: 2020-11-30
• First posted: 2019-03-20
• Last updated: 2021-01-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan