Cognitive-Behavioural Social Skills Training: Mediation of Treatment Outcomes in a Randomized Controlled Trial for Youth at Risk of Psychosis: L'entrainement aux competences sociales cognitivo-comportementales : variables mediatrices des resultats therapeutiques dans le cadre d'un essai clinique randomise pour les jeunes presentant un risque de psychose.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Currently, there are no effective treatments for functional outcomes (i.e., role and social) and negative symptoms for youth at clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis. Investigations into possible mechanisms that may contribute to the improvement of functioning and negative symptoms are needed in CHR research to help inform psychosocial treatments. The present study examined whether functioning and negative symptoms were mediated by asocial beliefs, defeatist beliefs, self-efficacy, maladaptive schemas, anxiety, depression, social cognition, or attenuated psychotic symptoms (APS) in a large clinical trial.

Methods

CHR participants (n = 203; 104 females; 99 males) were recruited as part of a three-site randomized control trial comparing group cognitive-behav

SUBMITTER: Devoe DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11562941 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature