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SchizophreniaRemedRugbyNCT03775564

Effectiveness of the RemedRugby Program

A study testing REMEDRUGBY PROGRAM, TOUCH RUGBY PROGRAM and TAU in people with Schizophrenia and Social Cognition, run by Hospital Center Alpes-Isère at 8 sites in France.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

REMEDRUGBY's objective is to strengthen the capacity of users to interact with others in an assertive way and to fight against stigma. It proposes to specifically target the processes of "social cognition". Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 50 years
Conditions the study is for
Schizophrenia, Social Cognition, Self Esteem
What is being tested?
REMEDRUGBY PROGRAM, TOUCH RUGBY PROGRAM and TAU
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
60 participants
Where
8 sitesFrance
Study dates
Nov 2014to Dec 2018
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 50 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder (DSM-V criteria; APA, 2013).
  • French mother tongue.
  • psychotropic treatment unchanged during the month prior to inclusion.
  • Patients who gave their informed consent to participate in the study.
  • affiliated with a social security scheme or beneficiary of such a scheme
  • Subject suitable for the practice of sport.

Who cannot join

  • Recent dependence and abuse on cannabis or any other substance (DSM-V criteria), except tobacco.
  • Neurological disorders of vascular, infectious or neurodegenerative origin.
  • taking of medicinal products with a cerebral or psychic impact (e.g., corticosteroids).
  • Inability to practice sport
  • Pregnancy planned or in progress
  • Simultaneous Participation in any other program of remediation of social cognition, training in social skills, self-esteem.

Trial locations and contacts

8 sites in 1 country.

8 sites in 1 country

France8 sites
  • Ch Annecy-Genevois

    Annecy, AURA, 74000

  • Ch Le Vinatier

    Bron, Aura, 69678

  • Chs de La Savoie

    Chambéry, AURA, 73000

  • Ch Sainte-Marie

    Clermont-Ferrand, AURA, 63000

  • CHU de CLERMONT-FERRAND

    Clermont-Ferrand, AURA, 63000

  • HCAlpesIsere

    Saint-Égrève, AURA, 38120

  • Chu Saint-Etienne

    Saint-Etienne, AURA, 42000

  • Chs Le Valmont

    Valence, AURA, 26000

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About this study

Official title: Effectiveness of the RemedRugby Program, a Program of Ecological Cognitive Remediation of Social Cognition Disorders in Schizophrenia

REMEDRUGBY's objective is to strengthen the capacity of users to interact with others in an assertive way and to fight against stigma. It proposes to specifically target the processes of "social cognition".

"Social cognition" brings together the mental mechanisms that allow everyone to decipher the social situations, emotions and intentions of others and interact with others in the different contexts of everyday life.

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People with a psychic handicap frequently have difficulties in this area, which has often important consequences for their social and professional integration.

The REMEDRUGBY program proposes to work specifically on these processes in the context of sport (+ role Play and blog) to strengthen the ability to interact with others and to deal with the stigma that can be encountered on a daily basis.

Being tested
REMEDRUGBY PROGRAM, TOUCH RUGBY PROGRAM, TAU
Medical subject headings
Schizophrenia, Empowerment

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • REMEDRUGBY PROGRAMOther

    • 1st Session presentation of the programme, its objectives and a common reflection on the concepts of stigmatization/destigmatization.
    • 2nd to 4th session devoted to a group reflection on social conventions and their meaning followed by a practice by means of role-playing.
    • 5th to 7th session devoted to writing comments about tournaments on the blog by working on the intentions of others and the emotional impact of comments on their recipients.
    • 8th, 9th 11th sessions devoted to media relations with group reflection on the image of themselves and their pathology that participants wish to refer to the media, followed by a practice in role-playing games Interviewer-interviewed
    • 10th session devoted to planning and organizing the day of matches with writing a program of the day and spreading on the blog
    • 12th General Debriefing session Including : - 3 tournaments
    • 8 hours of Touch Rugby
  • TOUCH RUGBY PROGRAMOther

    Practical training Program at Touchrugby at the rate of 12 weekly sessions of 2 hours and 3 inter-institutional tournaments per day

  • TAUOther

    Treatment as usual

Study groups in NCT03775564
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
REMEDRUGBYExperimentalTAU + RemedRugby Program
Receives: Other: REMEDRUGBY PROGRAM; Other: TAU
TAU + TOUCH RUGBYActive comparatorTAU + Touch Rugby Program
Receives: Other: TOUCH RUGBY PROGRAM; Other: TAU

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Movie to Assess Social Cognition (MASC)

    Changes in the aggregates (average) of standardized performance levels : z-scores of Theory of Mind (range 0-45) during social cognitive remediation

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

Secondary outcomes (14)
  1. Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale for Schizophrenia (PANSS)

    Changes in the aggregates (average) of standardized performance levels : z-scores of positive and negative symptoms (minimum score 30- maximum score 210) of schizophrenia after social cognitive remediation

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  2. Personal and Social Performance scale (PSP)

    Changes in the aggregates (average) of standardized performance levels : z-scores of social function (0 to 100) after social cognitive remediation

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  3. Self Esteem Rating Scale (SERS)

    Changes in the aggregates (average) of standardized performance levels : z-scores (minimum score 10-maximum score 70) in self-assessment of self-esteem

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  4. Boston University Empowerment Scale (BUES)

    Changes in the aggregates (average) of standardized performance levels : z-scores (minimum score 1- maximum score 4) in self-assessment of empowerment

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  5. Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI)

    self-assessment of internalized stigma

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  6. Stages of Recovery Instrument (STORI)

    Self-assessment of personal recovery

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  7. Social Perception and Knowledge (PerSo)

    cognitive task to assess competence in perception of social situations and social knowledge

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  8. Ambiguous Intentions and Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ)

    Changes in the aggregates (average) of standardized performance levels : z-scores (minimum score 1, maximum score 6) at a cognitive task to measure hostile social cognitive bias

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  9. Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy

    Changes in the aggregates (average) of standardized performance levels : z-scores (minimum score 31, maximum score 124) in a self-assessment of empathy

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  10. French National Adult Reading Test (f-NART

    cognitive task to assess premorbid intellectual quotient (IQ)

    Measured: Baseline measure only

  11. Trail Making Test A (TMT A)

    cognitive task to assess speed of processing

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  12. Trail Making Test B (TMT B)

    cognitive task to assess reactive mental flexibility

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  13. Self-assessment of Social Cognition (AcSo)

    self-assessment of patient' perception of social cognitive deficits

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

  14. Commission Test (modified zoo test)

    cognitive task to asess planification abilities

    Measured: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted14 Dec 2018
  2. Study startNov 2014
  3. Primary completionMar 2018
  4. Study completionDec 2018

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
RemedRugby program Vs TAU + TouchRugby
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
60 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03775564
Sponsor's protocol ID
2014-A01612-45
Acronym
RemedRugby
Status last verified
Mar 2019
First submitted
27 Jul 2018
Last updated
15 Mar 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Publications

  • Abu-Akel A. A neurobiological mapping of theory of mind. Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2003 Sep;43(1):29-40. doi: 10.1016/s0165-0173(03)00190-5.

    PubMed 14499460
  • Addington J, Addington D. Neurocognitive and social functioning in schizophrenia: a 2.5 year follow-up study. Schizophr Res. 2000 Jul 7;44(1):47-56. doi: 10.1016/s0920-9964(99)00160-7.

    PubMed 10867311
  • Addington J, Saeedi H, Addington D. Influence of social perception and social knowledge on cognitive and social functioning in early psychosis. Br J Psychiatry. 2006 Oct;189:373-8. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.105.021022.

    PubMed 17012662
  • Aleman A, Hijman R, de Haan EH, Kahn RS. Memory impairment in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis. Am J Psychiatry. 1999 Sep;156(9):1358-66. doi: 10.1176/ajp.156.9.1358.

    PubMed 10484945
  • Baudouin JY, Martin F, Tiberghien G, Verlut I, Franck N. Selective attention to facial emotion and identity in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia. 2002;40(5):503-11. doi: 10.1016/s0028-3932(01)00114-2.

    PubMed 11749980
  • Baron-Cohen S, Leslie AM, Frith U. Does the autistic child have a "theory of mind"? Cognition. 1985 Oct;21(1):37-46. doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(85)90022-8. No abstract available.

    PubMed 2934210
  • Bellack AS, Brown SA. Psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2001 Oct;3(5):407-12. doi: 10.1007/s11920-996-0035-x.

    PubMed 11559478
  • Bentall RP, Corcoran R, Howard R, Blackwood N, Kinderman P. Persecutory delusions: a review and theoretical integration. Clin Psychol Rev. 2001 Nov;21(8):1143-92. doi: 10.1016/s0272-7358(01)00106-4.

    PubMed 11702511
  • Bengtsson-Tops A. Mastery in patients with schizophrenia living in the community: relationship to sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, needs for care and support, and social network. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2004 Jun;11(3):298-304. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2003.00718.x.

    PubMed 15149377
  • Bertrand MC, Sutton H, Achim AM, Malla AK, Lepage M. Social cognitive impairments in first episode psychosis. Schizophr Res. 2007 Sep;95(1-3):124-33. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2007.05.033. Epub 2007 Jul 16.

    PubMed 17630261
  • Blair RJ. Responding to the emotions of others: dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations. Conscious Cogn. 2005 Dec;14(4):698-718. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2005.06.004. Epub 2005 Sep 12.

    PubMed 16157488
  • Blanchard JJ, Mueser KT, Bellack AS. Anhedonia, positive and negative affect, and social functioning in schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull. 1998;24(3):413-24. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.schbul.a033336.

    PubMed 9718633
  • Bora E, Yucel M, Pantelis C. Theory of mind impairment in schizophrenia: meta-analysis. Schizophr Res. 2009 Apr;109(1-3):1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2008.12.020. Epub 2009 Feb 4.

    PubMed 19195844
  • Ritsher JB, Otilingam PG, Grajales M. Internalized stigma of mental illness: psychometric properties of a new measure. Psychiatry Res. 2003 Nov 1;121(1):31-49. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2003.08.008.

    PubMed 14572622
  • Brohan E, Elgie R, Sartorius N, Thornicroft G; GAMIAN-Europe Study Group. Self-stigma, empowerment and perceived discrimination among people with schizophrenia in 14 European countries: the GAMIAN-Europe study. Schizophr Res. 2010 Sep;122(1-3):232-8. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.02.1065. Epub 2010 Mar 26.

    PubMed 20347271

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing REMEDRUGBY PROGRAM, TOUCH RUGBY PROGRAM and TAU in people with Schizophrenia and Social Cognition, run by Hospital Center Alpes-Isère at 8 sites in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 6 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Mar 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 8 sites in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Movie to Assess Social Cognition (MASC) (time frame: Changes between baseline function, after intervention and at 6 months of follow-up). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03775564, which also lists 63 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 15 Mar 2019.

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