Randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral social skills training for older consumers with schizophrenia: defeatist performance attitudes and functional outcome.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) is an effective psychosocial intervention to improve functioning in older consumers with schizophrenia, and whether defeatist performance attitudes are associated with change in functioning in CBSST.

Design

An 18-month, single-blind, randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Outpatient clinic at a university-affiliated Veterans Affairs hospital.

Participants

Veteran and non-veteran consumers with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (N = 79) age 45-78.

Interventions

CBSST was a 36-session, weekly group therapy that combined cognitive behavior therapy with social skills training and problem-solving training to improve functioning. The comparison intervention, goal-focused

SUBMITTER: Granholm E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3467335 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature