Clinical trial NCT03882619: Effectiveness of Using Calligraphic Activity to People With Schizophrenia
Official title: Effectiveness of Using Calligraphic Activity to People With Schizophrenia
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Schizophrenia
Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Jianan Psychiatric Center, Ministry of Health and Welfare
First posted: 2019-03-20
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 64
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: To examine the effects of calligraphy activity on symptoms, attention, emotion, and quality of life in people with schizophrenia. We hypothesized that through a six-month intervention using calligraphy activity, people with schizophrenia will have their symptoms decreased, attention improved, emotion enhanced, and quality of life increased. This study will adopt single-blind, randomized controlled trial, and 160 people with schizophrenia will be recruited in this study. They will be randomly assigned to either a calligraphy activity group (treatment group; n=80) or an occupational activity group (control group; n=80). Participants will complete assessments at pretest, posttest, and 3-month follow-up using the following instruments: Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Chu's Attention Test, The Taiwanese version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-T), WHO questionnaire on the Quality of Life, Brief Form (WHOQOL-BREF), and Chinese Depression Anxiety Stress Scales(DASS21).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Inpatients
* With diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
* Not in acute stage
* Voluntarily participate

Exclusion Criteria:

* Severe cognition level or intellectual disability that prevent from participation
* Severe behavioral problems and symptoms that prevent from participation
* People with blindness

Primary outcomes:
measure: Changes in emotion
timeFrame: Changes from baseline, end of study (3 months after baseline), and 6 months after baseline
measure: Changes in attention
timeFrame: Changes from baseline, end of study (3 months after baseline), and 6 months after baseline
measure: Changes in syndrome
timeFrame: Changes from baseline, end of study (3 months after baseline), and 6 months after baseline
measure: Changes in cognition
timeFrame: Changes from baseline, end of study (3 months after baseline), and 6 months after baseline
measure: Changes in quality of life
timeFrame: Changes from baseline, end of study (3 months after baseline), and 6 months after baseline
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tainan
country: Taiwan
facility: Jianan Psychiatric Center
Study officials:
References:
citation: Huang WY, Tsang HWH, Wang SM, Huang YC, Chen YC, Cheng CH, Chen CY, Chen JS, Chang YL, Huang RY, Lin CY, Potenza MN, Pakpour AH. Effectiveness of using calligraphic activity to treat people with schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial in Southern Taiwan. Ther Adv Chronic Dis. 2022 Mar 11;13:20406223221080646. doi: 10.1177/20406223221080646. eCollection 2022.