Effectiveness of a social cognition remediation intervention for patients with schizophrenia: a randomized-controlled study

Table 4 Changes in the outcome variables from baseline to follow-up

	mSoCIAL (N = 20)					TAU (N = 20)
	t	p-value	Cohen’s d	Lower CI	Upper CI	t	p-value	Cohen’s d	Lower CI	Upper CI
PANSS positive	1.926	0.069	− 0.431	− 0.921	0.060	1.083	0.292	− 0.242	− 0.717	0.233
PANSS negative	1.837	0.082	− 0.411	− 0.899	0.078	− 0.728	0.476	0.163	− 0.309	0.634
PANSS disorganization	2.666	0.015*	− 0.596	− 1.106	− 0.086	2.364	0.029*	− 0.529	− 1.030	− 0.027
MCCB neurocognitive composite score	− 1.651	0.115	0.369	− 0.115	0.854	− 1.822	0.084	0.407	− 0.081	0.895
FEIT total score	− 1.862	0.078	0.416	− 0.073	0.905	− 0.312	0.758	0.070	− 0.399	0.538
TASIT—emotion evaluation test	− 2.173	0.043*	0.486	− 0.010	0.982	− 0.665	0.514	0.149	− 0.322	0.619
TASIT—minimal social inference	− 1.629	0.120	0.364	− 0.120	0.848	2.026	0.057	− 0.453	− 0.946	0.040
TASIT—Enriched social inference	− 2.084	0.051	0.466	− 0.028	0.960	2.545	0.020*	− 0.569	− 1.075	− 0.063
UPSA total score	− 3.078	0.006*	0.688	0.165	1.211	− 1.404	0.177	0.314	− 0.166	0.794
SLOF interpersonal relationships	− 3.886	0.001**	0.869	0.316	1.422	0.535	0.599	− 0.120	− 0.589	0.350
SLOF everyday life skills	− 2.965	0.008*	0.663	0.144	1.182	1.545	0.139	− 0.345	− 0.828	0.137
SLOF work skills	− 2.531	0.020*	0.566	0.060	1.072	1.665	0.112	− 0.372	− 0.857	0.112

Mean ± Standard Deviation for age, years of education, and the scores of PANSS, SLOF, UPSA, MCCB, FEIT and TASIT; frequency for gender
SoCIAL Social Cognition Individualized Activity Lab, TAU Treatment As Usual, PANSS Positive And Negative Symptom Scale, MCCB MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery, FEIT Facial Emotion Identification Test, TASIT The Awareness of Social Inference Test, UPSA UCSD Performance-based Skills Assessment, SLOF Specific Levels Of Functioning
In bold statistically significant difference
^*The difference does not remain significant after controlling for multiple tests
^**Statistically significant difference between groups after Bonferroni correction for multiple tests (p < 0.003)

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