Efficacy of social cognition and interaction training in outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Given the relationship between social cognition and functional outcome in schizophrenia, a number of social cognitive interventions have been developed, including Social Cognition Interaction Training (SCIT), a group-based, comprehensive, manualized intervention. In the current trial, we examined SCIT efficacy as well as potential moderators of treatment effects. Fifty-one outpatients were randomized to SCIT or a wait-list-control (WLC), with assessments of social cognition, neurocognition, self-report, symptoms, and functioning conducted at baseline and end of the active phase. Relative to WLC, we did not find significant improvements for SCIT on neurocognition, social cognition, self-report, or symptoms, though there was a trend-level, medium effect favoring the SCIT condition on interpe

SUBMITTER: Fiszdon JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10436290 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature