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Trial reportSchizophrenia bulletin2011

Social-cognitive remediation in schizophrenia: generalization of effects of the Training of Affect Recognition (TAR).

Wolfgang Wölwer, Nicole Frommann

Registry-linked trialOpen access · bronzeAbstract readComparative StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Schizophrenia bulletin, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05130853 (Social Cognition Individualized Activities Lab), which is not on this map. Cited by 40 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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40citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05130853 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Social Cognition Individualized Activities Lab (SoCIAL) for the Training of Social Cognition and Narrative Enhancement in Patients With Schizophrenia: A Randomized Controlled Study to Assess Efficacy and Generalization to Real-life Functioning

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of Campania Luigi VanvitelliRan2021 to 2022Enrolled48ConditionsSchizophrenia, Schizo Affective DisorderArmsSocial Skills and Neurocognitive Individualized Training (SoCIAL), Treatmment-as-usual
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Empathy and Social Attribution Skills Moderate the Relationship between Temporal Lobe Volume and Facial Expression Recognition Ability in Schizophrenia.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wolfgang WölwerDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstrasse 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany. woelwer@uni-duesseldorf.de
Nicole Frommann
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last decade, several social cognitive remediation programs have been developed for use in schizophrenia. Though existing evidence indicates that such programs can improve social cognition, which is essential for successful social functioning, it remains unclear whether the improvements generalize to social cognitive domains not primarily addressed by the intervention and whether the improved test performance transfers into everyday social functioning. The present study investigated whether, beyond its known effects on facial affect recognition, the Training of Affect Recognition (TAR) has effects on prosodic affect recognition, theory of mind (ToM) performance, social competence in a role-play task, and more general social and occupational functioning. Thirty-eight inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were randomly assigned to 6 weeks of treatment with the TAR--primarily targeted at facial affect recognition-or Cognitive Remediation Training (CRT)--primarily targeted at neurocognition. Intention-to-treat analyses found significantly larger pre-post improvements with TAR than with CRT in prosodic affect recognition, ToM, and social competence and a trend effect in global social functioning. However, the effects on ToM and social competence were no longer significant in the smaller group of patients who completed treatment according to protocol. Results suggest that TAR effects generalize to other social cognitive domains not primarily addressed. TAR may also enhance social skills and social functioning, although this has to be confirmed. Results are discussed with regard to the need to improve functional outcome in schizophrenia against the background of current evidence from other social cognitive remediation approaches.

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AffectRecognition, PsychologySchizophrenic PsychologyAdultCognitive Behavioral TherapyComputer-Assisted InstructionFacial ExpressionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeuropsychological TestsOccupationsPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesSchizophreniaSocial Adjustment

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PMID21860049
PMCPMC3160117
OpenAlexW2020236210

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