NCT05805397Completed
Effectiveness of Motivation Skills Training (MST)
Motivation Skills Training to Enhance Functional Outcomes for People With Schizophrenia
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will take place at four outpatient clinics serving adults with serious mental illness. Informed consent will be obtained from N=80 individuals with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Illnesses (DSM)-5 diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria to participate in a randomized controlled trial comparing Motivation Skills Training (MST) to a Healthy Behaviors Control (HBC) group. Eligible participants will receive a baseline assessment including sociodemographic and psychosocial assessments, measures of motivation, goal attainment, and quality of life, as well as measures of executive skills, community functioning, and psychiatric symptoms severity. Both MST and HBC will be implemented as once weekly group therapies. The treatment phase is approximately 12-14 weeks. MST will focus on motivation knowledge and self-regulation skills while HBC will focus on physical health and health-related skills.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 59 (actual)
- First submitted
- 21 Mar 2023
- Start date
- 15 Apr 2024
- Primary completion date
- 18 Sept 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Columbia University
- Diseases
- Schizophrenia
- NCT number
- NCT05805397
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 59
- From 15 Apr 2024 to the primary completion date, 18 Sept 2026
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Neurologic condition causing brain disease
Age
- Mild to severe cognitive impairment associated with possible dementia measured by a Mini Mental Status Exam score below 20 in individuals ages 60 and older
Other
- Indications of Intellectual Disability as documented in medical history or measured by \< 70 premorbid full scale Intelligence Quotient (IQ) estimate
- Severe substance use within the past three months determined by DSM-5 criteria
Who the study is looking for
- Age 18-65
- DSM-5 Diagnosis of Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder
- Medically and psychiatrically stable outpatient status
- English Fluency
Age in the registry: 18 years to 65 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bridge, Inc. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| New York State Office of Mental Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
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