Attention Shaping Procedures for Improving Psychosocial Skills Among Adults With Schizophrenia

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Conditions studied: Schizophrenia

In brief

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of attention shaping procedures in improving attentiveness and learning abilities in people undergoing psychosocial skills training treatment for schizophrenia.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00391677

Run by

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

People needed

120

Starts

2007-01-01

Expected to finish

2011-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-09-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of schizophrenia, as confirmed by a diagnostic interview
• Has experienced difficulty paying attention while in groups during a treatment program, as determined by program staff
• Has experienced problems with social skills, as determined by program staff and study clinicians
• Social skill deficits, as determined by study clinicians

You may not qualify if…

• Diagnosis of mental retardation (including borderline or mild mental retardation)
• Diagnosis of autism, Asperger's syndrome, or another childhood disorder involving learning or relating to other people
• History of a neurological disorder, including epilepsy, traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness, coma, stroke, Parkinson's disease, etc.
• Diagnosis of active substance abuse (history of a substance abuse disorder without a current substance abuse problem will not be a criterion for exclusion)

Where it is running

• University Behavioral HealthCare — Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, United States
• University Behavioral HealthCare — New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

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