NCT07148609

Video Game-facilitated Group Activity for Quality of Life and Social Function in Chronic Schizophrenia Inpatients.

Video Game-facilitated Group Activity for Quality of Life and Social Function in Chronic Schizophrenia Inpatients: A Randomized Controlled Parallel-group Pilot Trial.

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (estimated)
• Sponsor: TsaoTun Psychiatric Center, Department of Health, Taiwan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if video game-facilitated group activity helps to improve the quality of life and social function in inpatients with chronic schizophrenia. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does video game-facilitated group activity enhance the quality of life as measured by a standardized scale (WHOQOL) in patients with schizophrenia hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital? * Can video game-facilitated group activity promote social function as measured by a specific scale (PSP) in patients with schizophrenia hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital? Researchers will compare video game-facilitated group activity to regular occupational therapy to see if the intervention is beneficial to patients with chronic schizophrenia. Participants will: * Attend to video game-facilitated group activity or regular occupational therapy three times a week for 12 weeks. * Receive assessments upon and after the 12-week intervention, and another 12 weeks after the intervention ends.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia Patients

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Video game-facilitated group activity	The intervention is a 12-week group activity program for each participant in the intervention group, and the program consists of three 50-minute video game facilitated group activity sessions per week. Participants in the intervention group will engage in those group activity session which will be mediated by the game of Super Mario Party on Nintendo Switch.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-03
• Primary completion: 2026-03-31
• Completion: 2026-03-31
• First posted: 2025-08-29
• Last updated: 2025-08-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan