Personalizing interventions using real-world interactions: Improving symptoms and social functioning in schizophrenia with tailored metacognitive therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

When clients' lives are not reflected in therapy, they struggle to apply the skills learned in treatment to everyday situations. In this pilot study, we determined if using clients' real-world interactions in therapy could effectively target metacognitive capacity-yielding improved symptoms and social functioning-by tailoring treatment to focus on issues faced by clients in daily life.

Method

Using a randomized controlled trial design, schizophrenia subjects with metacognitive deficits completed 24 sessions of: (a) Standard Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT); or (b) Tailored MERIT. Real-world interactions were captured via the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), a smartphone application that passively records audio in daily life. All subjects

SUBMITTER: Minor KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8857308 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature