von Wolfgang Wölwer ; Nicole Frommann ; Angnes Lowe ; Daniel Kamp ; Karolin Weide ; Andreas Bechdolf ; Anke Brockhaus-Dumke ; René Hurlemann ; Ana Muthesius
Die ISST-Study Group besteht aus folgenden Personen: W. Wölwer, S. Abresch, N. Frommann, A. Lowe, D. Kamp, P. Ockenfelds, K. Weide, F. Pessanha, S. Dinse (Düsseldorf); A. Philipsen, R. Hurlemann, J. Schultz, N. Striepens, U. Darrelmann, C. Kloss, S. Wasserthal, H. Högenauer, N. Schumacher (Bonn); F. Jessen, J. Kambeitz, C. Baldermann, A. Muthesius, C. Doll, H. Schneegans, A. Ferrari, G. Kolb, T. Haidl, D. Zeus, T. Pilgram, M. Rohde, P. Albert-Porcar, S. Hölzer, M. Hellmich, K. Kuhr, K. Rosenberger, D. Kraus, S. Schmied, U. Bergmann, F. Scheckenbach, A. Montada (Cologne); S. Klingberg, D. Wildgruber, U. Hermanutz, J. Richter, J. Vonderschmitt, L. Hölz (Tübingen); A. Bechdolf, K. Leopold, S. Siebert, F. Seidel, E.S. Blanke (Berlin), A. Brockhaus-Dumke, X. Solojenkina, B. Klos, E. Rosenbauer, S. Cinar, L. Herdt, F. Henrich, S. Neff (Alzey), A. Meyer-Lindenberg (Mannheim) ; Gesehen am 12.02.2024
BackgroundAlthough clinically effective treatment is available for schizophrenia, recovery often is still hampered by persistent poor psychosocial functioning, which in turn is limited by impairments in neurocognition, social cognition, and social behavioral skills. Although cognitive remediation has shown general efficacy in improving cognition and social functioning, effects still need to be improved and replicated in appropriately powered, methodologically rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Existing evidence indicates that effects can most likely be optimized by combining treatment approaches to simultaneously address both social cognitive and social behavioral processes.ObjectivesTo assess whether Integrated Social Cognitive and Behavioral Skill Therapy (ISST) is more efficacious in improving functional outcome in schizophrenia than the active control treatment Neurocognitive Remediation Therapy (NCRT).MethodsThe present study is a multicenter, prospective, rater-blinded, two-arm RCT being conducted at six academic study sites in Germany. A sample of 180 at least partly remitted patients with schizophrenia are randomly assigned to either ISST or NCRT. ISST is a compensatory, strategy-based program that targets social cognitive processes and social behavioral skills. NCRT comprises mainly drill and practice-oriented neurocognitive training. Both treatments consist of 18 sessions over 6 months, and participants are subsequently followed up for another 6 months. The primary outcome is all-cause discontinuation over the 12-month study period; psychosocial functioning, quality of life, neurocognitive and social cognitive performance, and clinical symptoms are assessed as secondary outcomes at baseline before randomization (V1), at the end of the six-month treatment period (V6), and at the six-month follow-up (V12).DiscussionThis RCT is part of the German Enhancing Schizophrenia Prevention and Recovery through Innovative Treatments (ESPRIT) research network, which aims at using innovative treatments to enhance prevention and recovery in patients with schizophrenia. Because this study is one of the largest and methodologically most rigorous RCTs on the efficacy of cognitive remediation approaches in schizophrenia, it will not only help to identify the optimal treatment options for improving psychosocial functioning and thus recovery in patients but also allow conclusions to be drawn about factors influencing and mediating the effects of cognitive remediation in these patients.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT 02678858, German Study Register DRKS 00010033
Frontiers in psychiatry Lausanne : Frontiers Research Foundation, 2007 13(2022) vom: Juni, Artikel-ID 909370, Seite 1-12 Online-Ressource
von Kira E. Delmore ; Benjamin M. Van Doren ; Greg J. Conway ; Teja Curk ; Tania Garrido-Garduño ; Ryan R. Germain ; Timo Hasselmann ; Dieter Hiemer ; Henk P. van der Jeugd ; Hannah Justen ; Juan Sebastian Lugo Ramos ; Ivan Maggini ; Britta Meyer ; Robbie J. Phillips ; Magdalena Remisiewicz ; Graham C. M. Roberts ; Ben C. Sheldon ; Wolfgang Vogl ; Miriam Liedvogel
Royal Society (London) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences London : The Royal Society, 1905 287(2020), 1938, Artikel-ID 20201339, Seite 1-10 Online-Ressource
von Sebastian Tobias Meyer ; Robert Ptacnik ; Helmut Hillebrand ; Holger Bessler ; Nina Buchmann ; Anne Ebeling ; Nico Eisenhauer ; Christof Engels ; Markus Fischer ; Stefan Halle ; Alexandra-Maria Klein ; Yvonne Oelmann ; Christiane Roscher ; Tanja Rottstock ; Christoph Scherber ; Stefan Scheu ; Bernhard Schmid ; Ernst-Detlef Schulze ; Vicky M. Temperton ; Teja Tscharntke ; Winfried Voigt ; Alexandra Weigelt ; Wolfgang Wilcke ; Wolfgang W. Weisser
