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Social cognition dysfunction (including emotional perception, theory of mind, and attribution bias) is a common dysfunction in serious mental illness, which may influence their life roles and daily functions. The social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) is a manual-guide group intervention that can apply to people with serious mental illness.Thus this study aims to conduct SCIT groups in Taiwan to investigate its feasibility and effectiveness.

This study will include 30 clients. Investigators will randomly allot participants into two group, and conduct a crossover design. The experimental group will receive a 60-minutes manual-guide SCIT session each week for 20 times, which will be leaded by 2 licensed occupational therapists. After the intervention, investigators will analyze demographic data and compare the difference between experimental group and control group on the social cognition performance.


Clinical Trial Description

Social cognition dysfunction (including emotional perception, theory of mind, and attribution bias) is a common dysfunction in serious mental illness, which may influence their life roles and daily functions. The social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) is a manual-guide group intervention that can apply to people with serious mental illness. There have been evidences showing that the SCIT could improve emotional perception, theory of mind, attribution bias, and social relationship. However, there are no SCIT studies in Taiwan yet. Thus this study aims to conduct SCIT groups in Taiwan to investigate its feasibility and effectiveness.

This study will include 30 clients from a day care ward and community rehabilitation center, excluding clients with acute onset, brain injury, intellectual disability and substance abuse. The investigators will randomly allot participants into two group, and conduct a crossover design. Before and after the intervention protocol, both group receive evaluations of clinical symptoms, emotional perception, theory of mind, and attributional bias. The experimental group will receive a 60-minutes manual-guide SCIT session each week for 20 times, which will be leaded by 2 licensed occupational therapists. There are three main themes of the SCIT: 1) introduction and emotion, 2) figuring out situation and 3) integration: checking it out. After each theme of the intervention, participants will fill out a satisfaction survey. And a senior occupational therapist will observe the group and rate the fidelity of the group. The control group will receive treatment as usual.

After the intervention, the investigators will analyze demographic data and compare the difference between experimental group and control group on the social cognition performance. ;


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NCT number NCT04428996
Study type Interventional
Source National Cheng-Kung University Hospital
Contact Wei-Yun Hsu
Phone 886-6-2353535
Email t76054024@gs.ncku.edu.tw
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date June 2020
Completion date December 2021

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