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CTRI Number  CTRI/2021/01/030487 [Registered on: 15/01/2021] Trial Registered Prospectively
Last Modified On: 22/09/2021
Post Graduate Thesis  Yes 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study   Behavioral 
Study Design  Non-randomized, Multiple Arm Trial 
Public Title of Study   Psychosocial therapy for people with schizophrenia. A group of treatments will be offered to schizophrenia patients in this study to see the result of intervention. 
Scientific Title of Study   Psychosocial Interventions in Persons with Schizophrenia 
Trial Acronym   
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  Ashfaq Ahmad Dangroo 
Designation  Research Scholar 
Affiliation  Government Medical College and Hospital Chandigarh 
Address  Hardushiva Sopore Baramulla, jammu and Kashmir, India 193201
Room No 308 Mental Health Institute Sector 32 Chandigarh
Baramula
JAMMU & KASHMIR
193201
India 
Phone  7006360294  
Fax    
Email  ashfaqad777@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
Name  Dr Kamlesh Kumar Sahu 
Designation  Associate professor 
Affiliation  Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh. 
Address  Room 226 Mental Health Institute Sector 32 Chandigarh
sector 32 Chandigarh
Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH
160030
India 
Phone  9038751120  
Fax    
Email  withkamlesh@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
Name  Dr Priti Arun 
Designation  Professor 
Affiliation  Government Medical College and Hospital Sector-32, Chandigarh 
Address  Department of Psychiatry Government Medical College and Hospital Sector-32, Chandigarh
sector 32 Chandigarh
Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH
160030
India 
Phone  9646121612  
Fax    
Email  drpritiarun@gmail.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
Government Medical College and Hospital sector 32 Department of Psychiatry  
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  Government Medical College and Hospital Chandigarh 
Address  Government Medical College and Hospital sector 32 Department of Psychiatry 5th floor 
Type of Sponsor  Other [Government Medical College and Hospital Chandigarh] 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL  NIL 
 
Countries of Recruitment     India  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 1  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
Ashfaq Ahmad Dangroo  GMCH 32 Chandigarh  Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector-32, Chandigarh.
Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH 
7006360294

ashfaqad777@gmail.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
Institutional Ethics Committee (GMCH Chandigarh)  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Patients  (1) ICD-10 Condition: F20||Schizophrenia,  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Comparator Agent  Not Applicable  Not Applicable. There is no control group or comparison group. 
Intervention  Psychosocial Intervention in person with Schizophrenia  1 Monitoring Compliance for Intervention through Morisky Medication Adherence Scale It will be monitored if persons with schizophrenia are complying with both pharmacological and non- pharmacological treatment as prescribed by the clinician.After that a session will be taken to ensure patients compliance with both non pharmacological as pharmacological treatment.The session duration will be 1 hour and frequency will be weekly.Total sessions will be 8 in whole study  
Intervention  Psychosocial Intervention in person with Schizophrenia  Activity Scheduling and monitoring To help persons with schizophrenia in scheduling various activities into day to day lifestyle and help them to identify a timetable of activities to manage their attention, develop feelings of competence, develop social confidence etc a written format of activity is scheduled and is monitored in each session to see if persons with schizophrenia are maintaining it.There will be one session in which activity scheduling will be done and patient will be instructed to follow the schedule. In each session this will be monitored by therapist. 
Intervention  Psychosocial Intervention in person with Schizophrenia  Engagement in Vocation or Productive Work If person with schizophrenia is functional then vocational counselling in order to involve him/her in some productive activity and then once client is ready then we proceed for it. After assessing if there is any kind of vocational help needed she or he can be helped to engage in it. The session will be weekly and duration will be 1 hour. 
Intervention  Psychosocial Intervention in person with Schizophrenia  Intervention to address impaired socio-occupational functioning as per initial assessment with Social Occupational Functioning Scale SOFS by Saraswat et al 2006 After assessing the SOF scale a complete picture will be found on the lacking area of persons with schizophrenia’s social occupational and functional life. As per requirement these issues to be addressed. The session duration will be 1 hour and frequency will be weekly. 
Intervention  Psychosocial Intervention in person with Schizophrenia  Psychoeducation IPS guidelines by Sarkhel, Singh and Arora 2020 Goals of the psychoeducation will be following To ensure basic knowledge and competence of patients and their relatives about the illness. To provide insight into the illness To promote relapse prevention Engaging in crisis management and suicide Prevention if required through referral services. Essential elements 1 Briefing the patients about their illness 2 Problem solving training 3 Communication training 4 Self-assertiveness training the session duration will be 1 hour and frequency will be weekly two session will be taken on psychoeducation. 
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  18.00 Year(s)
Age To  55.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  1 Schizophrenia (only F20.0-20.9) as per ICD-10.
2 Clinically stable patients defined as absence of exacerbation of illness requiring increase in drug doses by 50 % in past three months.
3 Age 18 to 55 years.
4 Duration of schizophrenia more than 1 year and less then 5 years
5 Those who will give written consent to participate in the study 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  Any unstable major medical illness or substance dependence (except nicotine and caffeine).
• Those who are already receiving psychosocial intervention.
• Worsening of clinical condition while receiving psychosocial intervention 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Not Applicable 
Method of Concealment   Not Applicable 
Blinding/Masking   Not Applicable 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
To study the outcomes of psychosocial intervention in persons with schizophrenia
During intervention sessions their issues will be addressed as per the needs. Soon after the intervention, post assessment will be done assessing again on Global Assessment of functioning GAF, WHO-QoL-BREF and additionally on Patient satisfaction scale PAT-SAT. 
There will be 8 sessions in whole study and the session duration will be 1 hour and frequency will be weekly.The total time point will be 8 weeks 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
To study the psychosocial needs and outcomes of intervention in persons with schizophrenia
To study the feasibility of psychosocial intervention in out patient clinic.  
This study includes intervention sessions which will be done on weekly basis and in 8 weeks 8 sessions will be completed. 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="15"
Sample Size from India="15" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "15"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="15" 
Phase of Trial   N/A 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   15/01/2021 
Date of Study Completion (India) 30/07/2021 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  Date Missing 
Date of Study Completion (Global) Date Missing 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="1"
Months="0"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)
Modification(s)  
Not Applicable 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Completed 
Publication Details
Modification(s)  
NA 
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Response - YES
  1. What data in particular will be shared?
    Response - Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after de-identification (text, tables, figures, and appendices).

  2. What additional supporting information will be shared?
    Response -  Statistical Analysis Plan
    Response - Clinical Study Report

  3. Who will be able to view these files?
    Response - Anyone

  4. For what types of analyses will this data be available?
    Response - Any purpose.

  5. By what mechanism will data be made available?
    Response (Others) -  After the completion the research scholar may publish a research paper on this thesis that will be published in any journal.

  6. For how long will this data be available start date provided 01-07-2022 and end date provided 01-07-2025?
    Response - Immediately following publication. No end date.

  7. Any URL or additional information regarding plan/policy for sharing IPD? 
    Additional Information - This is M.Phil thesis and the research paper will be published in any journal.
Brief Summary
Modification(s)  

After receiving ethical clearance, those patients who are attending to psychiatry OPD and diagnosis with schizophrenia (F20.0-20.9) as per ICD-10 criteria and meting the inclusion and exclusion criteria and give consent for the study were initially assessed consecutively.

Socio-demographic and Clinical details will be collected from the case record file and from the patient or care givers. A detail psychosocial assessment was done then Psychosocial Intervention Needs checklist will be filled based on the psychosocial assessment and information from the patients then they were assessed on Global Assessment of functioning (GAF), WHO-QoL-BREF.

Subsequently, sessions were planned as per the intervention package (psychosocial intervention) was proceeded along with the routine treatment from the OPD.
All interventions in the package will not be applicable for all the patients it will be specifically made for each person with schizophrenia depending upon the score of socio occupation functioning scale. After that during intervention sessions their issues were addressed as per the needs. Soon after the intervention, post assessment will be done assessing again on Global Assessment of functioning (GAF), WHO-QoL-BREF and additionally on Patient satisfaction scale (PAT-SAT)
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