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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN65818527
Date of registration: 23/10/2000
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
Public title: Study Of Cognitive ReAlignment Therapy in Early Schizophrenia
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Date of first enrolment: 01/04/1996
Target sample size: 236
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN65818527
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial (Not Specified)  
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Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
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Affiliation: 
Name: SW    Lewis
Address:  School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science University of Manchester Withington Hospital West Didsbury M20 8LR Manchester United Kingdom
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Consecutive sample of in- or day-patients admitted with 1st and 2nd episode schizophrenia aged 18-65. Further inclusion criteria:
1. Able to give informed consent
2. Meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth
Edition (DSMIV) diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia, schizophreniform or schizoaffective disorder with at least a 1 month history of positive symptoms
3. No significant history of organic brain disease or substance misuses for major aetiological factor for psychosis
4. Positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) for schizophrenia score of at least 4 on item hallucinatory behaviour and/or item delusions
5. Score of less than 5 on PANSS item conceptual disorganisation

Exclusion criteria: Not provided at time of registration

Age minimum:
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Gender: Not Specified
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Neurosciences, psychiatry
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Schizophrenia
Intervention(s)
Cognitive behaviour therapy/drug treatments
Primary Outcome(s)
1. Change on core symptom scores on hallucination and delusion rating scales
2. Change in total symptoms scores on PANSS
3. Time to criterion of 50% recovery operationally defined -
4. Number of days in hospital before 1st discharge and during follow-up
5. Time to relapse
6. Follow-up symptom and outcome scores at 3.9 and 18 months
Secondary Outcome(s)
Not provided at time of registration
Secondary ID(s)
G9519373
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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Results
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