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Au RWC, Sezto HNW, Lam VWM, Wan YT, Poon LT, Pang PF, Wong JKK. Brief report: A randomized controlled trial of a compensatory cognitive training to improve prospective memory performance in people with schizophrenia or depression. Psychiatry Res 2021; 300:113914. [PMID: 33827012 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/27/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
People with schizophrenia or depression have prospective memory (PM) deficits, which affect their daily living. Given the paucity of research into training to correct PM deficits, we subjected a group of participants to a Chinese version of the PM module of the Cognitive Compensatory Training (CCT-C-PM) intervention to study its effect on their PM performance. Specifically, we independently randomized two diagnostic cohorts (schizophrenia and depression) into control groups (occupational therapy only) or experimental groups (CCT-C-PM and occupational therapy). The schizophrenia cohort had 17 participants in its control group and 23 participants in its experimental group. The depression cohort had 10 participants in its control group and 12 participants in its experimental group. The sociodemographic information of the participants was collected. Their symptoms and PM performances were measured at baseline and after treatment (after the completion of the CCT-C-PM intervention in the experimental group and the same timeframe in the control group). The treatment effects were examined by a repeated measure analysis of variance/analysis of covariance and a post hoc Scheffé test. The effect sizes (Cohen's d) of treatments against the controls were also calculated. There was no difference between the experimental and control groups in either cohort in terms of sociodemographic data, symptoms, and PM measures at baseline. The sex combination differed across the groups in the depression cohort. We found that the CCT-C-PM improved PM, especially event-based PM, for which large effect sizes were seen. The effect on time-based PM was unclear and requires future study. Our findings suggest that the CCT-C-PM is a viable training method for improving PM.
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Affiliation(s)
- Raymond W C Au
- Occupational Therapy Department, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong.
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- Occupational Therapy Department, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Occupational Therapy Department, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Occupational Therapy Department, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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Chang WC, Lee HC, Chan SI, Chiu SY, Lee HM, Chan KW, Wong MC, Chan KL, Yeung WS, Choy LW, Chong SY, Siu MW, Lo TL, Yan WC, Ng MK, Poon LT, Pang PF, Lam WC, Wong YC, Chung WS, Mo YM, Lui SY, Hui LM, Chen EYH. Negative symptom dimensions differentially impact on functioning in individuals at-risk for psychosis. Schizophr Res 2018; 202:310-315. [PMID: 29935882 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.06.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2017] [Revised: 04/20/2018] [Accepted: 06/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- W C Chang
- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong; State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong; State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kowloon Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kowloon Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tai Po Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tai Po Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong; State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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