Individuals living with a psychotic disorder often experience changes to their thinking and social skills that can lead to challenges with work, school, relationships and living independently. One intervention to target these areas is cognitive remediation therapy, which can be delivered in virtual reality to help apply the skills and strategies learned to day-to-day life. Over the past few years, our team has co-developed a cognitive remediation program in virtual reality with healthcare professionals and people with lived experiences of psychosis. The current trial tests the feasibility and efficacy of this cognitive remediation program in virtual reality at improving thinking skills, social skills, and daily life functioning.
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Feasibility of the Intervention (attrition rate).
Timeframe: The training completion will be computed at the 1-week post-intervention timepoint.
Feasibility of the intervention (homework completion).
Timeframe: Homework completion will be computed at the 1-week post-intervention timepoint.
Feasibility of the intervention (cybersickness).
Timeframe: Participants complete the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire at each intervention visit, which is scheduled twice a week for six weeks. The composite mean score will be computed at the 1-week post-training time point for each participant.
Acceptability of the intervention
Timeframe: The satisfaction questionnaire will be administered at the 1-week post-intervention time point.
Change in the acceptability of the intervention from the sixth intervention visit (3 weeks in intervention) to 1-week post-intervention.
Timeframe: The Treatment Acceptability/Adherence Scale will be administered at the sixth intervention visit (3 weeks in the intervention) and 1-week post-intervention.