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Explorative Study on the Effect of the Implementation of the Neuropsychological Educational Approach to Cognitive Remediation on Cognitive Dysfunction of Japanese Patients with Schizophrenia Satoru IKEZAWA 1,4 , Shenghong PU 1 , Shiho MIKI 1 , Masato KATO 1 , Kuniya TAMASHIRO 1 , Akira IWASAKI 3 , Izumi SATO 3 , Seiji KATAYAMA 1,3 , Maki UMEBAYASHI 4 , Mayumi KURIMURA 4 , Yoshiko HAYAMI 4 , Chiaki KOMATSU 4 , Yukina SENDA 4 , Kouko YAMADA 4 , Yu HIROE 4 , Izumi NAGATA 1,4 , Hironori OHMIYA 5 , Junya SASAKI 5 , Toshinori KATO 5 , Maroko YOSHIZAWA 6 , Kenji MATSUMURA 6 , Junko OKA 6 , Ichiro KIMURA 6 , Koichi KANEKO 1 , Tamiko MOGAMI 2 , Kazuyuki NAKAGOME 1 , Youichi KUROZAWA 7 1Division of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago, Japan 2Division of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine 3Yasugi Daiichi Hospital 4Yowa Hospital 5Yonago Hospital 6Meiwakai-Medical and Welfare Center Watanabe Hospital 7Division of Health Administration and Promotion, School of Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine Keyword: Schizophrenia , Cognitive dysfunction , Cognitive remediation , NEAR , neuropsychological educational approach to cognitive remediation , BACS-J , Japanese version of brief assessment of cognition in schizophrenia pp.999-1008
Published Date 2009/10/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1405101509
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 It is widely accepted that cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia plays a major role in determining the social outcome of patient. Cognitive remediation therapy was used for Japan with the aim of alleviating the many difficulties that these patients encounter in their social lives. After participating in the 1-week training program in America for clinicians on Neuropsychological Educational Approach to Cognitive Remediation (NEAR), we introduced the approach in Japan. The main aim of this study is to verify the efficacy of 1 year of NEAR sessions on the improvement of cognitive and social functions of patients in Japan.

 Twelve patients with schizophrenia participated in the program which consisted of 2 one-hour sessions a week. Treatment efficacy was assessed in subjects who had completed approximately 6 months of NEAR sessions. In each session, subjects engaged in computer tasks that involved cognitive processing according to the subjects’ cognitive dysfunction profiles. In addition, a group meeting that aimed at promoting motivation and generalization of cognitive skills to daily life was held once a week.

 We measured efficacy by comparing it with the following 3 scales: (a) The Japanese version of the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS-J) as a cognitive function scale, (b) The Life Assessment Scale for Mental Illness (LASMI) as a social function scale.

 The findings of the present study can be summarized as follows; (a) patients showed significant improvement in cognitive function;however, such improvement was not seen in social function, (b) age of onset of illness was positively correlated with the improvement in attention, (c) NEAR attendance rate correlated positively with the improvement in skills required for activities of daily living, (d) baseline attention performance exhibited negative correlation with the improvement in interpersonal skills, (e) the improvement in executive function positively correlated with the improvement in skills required for daily life activites.

 Although the sample size in the present study was small, our findings indicate that the application of NEAR was moderately effective in improving cognition in the case of Japanese patients, and some potential predictors of its efficacy were identified.


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