Clinical Trial: The Effect of Computerized Cognitive Training on Mood and Thinking Style Amongst Patients in Inpatient Settings

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: The Effect of Computerized Cognitive Training on Mood and Thinking Style Amongst Patients in Inpatient Settings

Brief Summary: The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to establish feasibility and provide initial estimates of efficacy of two computerized cognitive training procedures (a form of Positive Mental Imagery Training, PMIT, and a form of Cognitive Control Training, CCT) delivered as adjuncts to treatment as usual (TAU) in inpatient mental health treatment settings.

Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: Ruhr University of Bochum

Current Primary Outcome: 21-item positive subscale from the extended Positive and Negative Affect Schedules [ Time Frame: Post-intervention (2 weeks post-baseline) ]

The Joviality, Self-Assurance, Attentiveness, and Serenity subscales of the extended PANAS (PANAS-X; Watson & Clark, 1994) will be administered, following previous experimental research examining the effect of positive mental imagery on state mood (e.g. Holmes, Lang, & Shah, 2009). Participants will be asked to rate the items according to how they have been feeling 'in the past week, that is, during the past seven days, including today'.


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

  • 21-item positive subscale from the extended Positive and Negative Affect Schedules [ Time Frame: Baseline, Follow-up (2 weeks after the post-intervention assessment) ]
    The Joviality, Self-Assurance, Attentiveness, and Serenity subscales of the extended PANAS (PANAS-X; Watson & Clark, 1994) will be administered, following previous experimental research examining the effect of positive mental imagery on state mood (e.g. Holmes, Lang, & Shah, 2009). Participants will be asked to rate the items according to how they have been feeling 'in the past week, that is, during the past seven days, including today'.
  • Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale [ Time Frame: Baseline, Post-intervention (2 weeks post-baseline), Follow-up (2 weeks after the post-intervention assessment) ]
    An extended 26-item version of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS; Rizvi et al., 2015) will be administered.
  • Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology - Self Report [ Time Frame: Baseline, Post-intervention (2 weeks post-baseline), Follow-up (2 weeks after the post-intervention assessment) ]
  • GAD-7 [ Time Frame: Baseline, Post-intervention (2 weeks post-baseline), Follow-up (2 weeks after the post-intervention assessment) ]
  • Positive Mental Health Scale [ Time Frame: Baseline, Post-intervention (2 weeks post-baseline), Follow-up (2 weeks after the post-intervention assessment) ]
  • Prospective Imagery Test [ Time Frame: Baseline, Post-intervention (2 weeks post-baseline) ]
  • Scrambled Sentences Test (SST) [ Time Frame: Baseline, Post-intervention (2 weeks post-baseline) ]
  • Implicit Associations Test (IAT) [ Time Frame: Baseline, Post-intervention (2 weeks post-baseline) ]


Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: Ruhr University of Bochum

Dates:
Date Received: November 4, 2016
Date Started: November 2016
Date Completion: March 2018
Last Updated: April 18, 2017
Last Verified: April 2017