Cognitive training plus a comprehensive psychosocial programme (OPUS) versus the comprehensive psychosocial programme alone for patients with first-episode schizophrenia (the NEUROCOM trial): A study protocol for a centrally randomised, observer-blinded multi-centre clinical trial

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Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Vesterager, Lone ^a,b   Christensen, Torben T ^c   Olsen, Birthe B ^c   Krarup, Gertrud ^c   Forchhammer, Hysse B ^d   Melau, Marianne ^a   Gluud, Christian ^e   Nordentoft, Merete ^a,b  

^a Copenhagen University Hospital ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e International Center for Research and Research Training in Endocrine Disruption of Male Reproduction and Child Health   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHOSOCIAL PROGRAM; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF ESTEEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBALIZATION; VISION; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DENMARK; EMPLOYMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DENMARK; EMPLOYMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79651474978     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-35     Document Type: Article

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