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Establish a novel vocational training program and test its validity in a pilot study.
40 schizophrenia patients will be recruited to join the virtual reality based vocational training program, the training effect will be compared by interview skills and problem solving before and after the training.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Mild ED/NS | Experimental | 10 patients with mild or none executive function impairment and mild or none negative symptoms. |
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| Mild ED/Severe NS | Experimental | 10 patients with mild or none executive function impairment and severe or moderate negative symptoms. |
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| Severe ED/Mild NS | Experimental | 10 patients with severe or moderate executive function impairment and mild or none negative symptoms. |
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| Severe ED/NS | Experimental | 10 patients with severe or moderate executive function impairment and severe or moderate negative symptoms. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| VR-assisted occupational training | Behavioral | VR-assisted occupational training |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| clinical ratings of schizophrenia symptoms | The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) is a 30-item rating scale completed by trained research staff. Scores for positive, negative, cognitive disorganization, emotional discomfort, and hostility/excitement symptoms were derived from factor-derived scoring published. * There are 30 different symptoms rated from 1 to 7 (total score of 210). Higher the score, worse the symptoms | 8 weeks |
| vocational skills | Job interview role-play performance will be scored across nine domains: conveying oneself as a hard worker, sounding easy to work with, conveying that one behaves professionally, negotiation skills (requesting one day off), sharing things in a positive way, sounding honest, sounding interested in the position, comfort level, and establishing rapport | 8 weeks |
| global improvement | Clinical Global Impression Improvement scale (CGI-I) rating scales are commonly used measures of symptom severity, treatment response and the efficacy in treatment studies of patients with mental disorders. It is a 7-point scale that require clinician to assess how much the patient's illness has improved or worsened relative to baseline. "1" meaning very much improved, "7" meaning very much worsen. | 8 weeks |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Yi Ling Chien | Contact | 886-2-2312-3456 | 66013 | ylchien@hotmail.com |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Yi Ling Chien | National Taiwan University Hospital | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| National Taiwan University Hospital | Recruiting | Taipei | Taiwan |
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| ID | Term |
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| D012559 | Schizophrenia |
| D060825 | Cognitive Dysfunction |
| ID | Term |
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| D019967 | Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
| D003072 | Cognition Disorders |
| D019965 | Neurocognitive Disorders |
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