Creating Live Interactions to Mitigate Barriers

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Schizophrenia

In brief

This study is a validation study to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and impact of a mobile psychosocial intervention to enhance social functioning in people with schizophrenia.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03317769

Run by

Posit Science Corporation

People needed

31

Starts

2018-04-01

Expected to finish

2019-06-06

Last updated by the study team

2019-07-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants must have a clinical diagnosis of Schizophrenia as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and confirmed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID)
• Participant must be clinically stable (outpatient status for at least 2 months) at time of screening
• Participants taking psychiatric medications must be on a stable medication regimen for greater than or equal to 4 weeks prior to screening
• Participant must be a fluent English speaker
• Participant must have adequate sensorimotor capacity to perform the program, including visual capacity adequate to read from a computer screen at a normal viewing distance, auditory capacity adequate to understand normal speech, and motor capacity adequate to control a computer mouse
• Participants must be able to use iOS mobile applications

You may not qualify if…

• Participants with unstable and/or untreated conditions that may affect cognition, including substance abuse/dependence disorders, cardiovascular, endocrine, neurologic disorder, epilepsy, recent hospitalization, ongoing chemotherapy or other cancer treatment
• Participant has a history of mental retardation, pervasive developmental disorder, head trauma, traumatic brain injury, or other neurological disorder that impairs cognition
• Participants who have had psychiatric hospitalizations in the 8 weeks prior to randomization
• Participants had significant medication or clinical status changes, or adjustment in their antipsychotic treatment in the 4 weeks prior to randomization
• Participants with active suicidal ideations and/or behaviors as measured by the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
• Participants showing signs of intoxication due to current substance abuse (including alcohol and/or illegal drugs) during any in person visit
• Participants with problems performing assessments or comprehending or following spoken instructions
• Participants enrolled in a concurrent clinical trial involving an investigational pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, medical device, or behavioral treatment that could affect the outcome of this study
• Participant is using computer-based cognitive training programs or has used it within a month of the consent date

Where it is running

• Posit Science Corporation — San Francisco, California, United States

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