Meta‐cognitive skills training enhances computerized cognitive remediation outcomes among individuals with first‐episode psychosis. Issue 3 (15th October 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Breitborde, Nicholas J.K.; Woolverton, Cindy; Dawson, Spencer C.; Bismark, Andrew; Bell, Emily K.; Bathgate, Christina J.; Norman, Kaila
• Is Part Of: Early intervention in psychiatry. Volume 11:Issue 3(2017:Jun.)
• Page Start: 244
• Page End: 249
• Publication Date: 2015-10-15
• Subjects: cognition -- cognitive remediation -- first‐episode psychosis -- meta‐cognition -- treatment; Mental health -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Research -- Periodicals; Mental illness -- Prevention -- Research -- Periodicals; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Research -- Periodicals; 616.89
• DOI: 10.1111/eip.12289
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-7885

Abstract

Abstract: Aim: Meta‐cognitive skills training (MST) is a frequent component of cognitive remediation programmes for individuals with psychosis. However, no study has investigated whether incorporating such activities produces increased clinical benefits compared with computerized cognitive remediation alone. Methods: Individuals with first‐episode psychosis who completed computerized cognitive remediation with concurrent meta‐cognitive skills training (CCR + MST) were compared with a historical control group who received computerized cognitive remediation alone (CCR) and did not differ from the CCR + MST group with regard to pre‐intervention cognition, diagnosis, age, duration of psychotic illness or sex. Participants completed assessments of cognition and real‐world functioning before and after 6 months of treatment. Results: Individual receiving CCR + MST experience greater gains in cognition and real‐world functioning than individuals who received CCR. Conclusions: MST may be an important component within cognitive remediation programmes for first‐episode psychosis.