Predicting Psychosocial Rehabilitation Service Outcomes

• WHAT IS THIS STUDY ABOUT? -  

  • This IP-RISP (Interventions and Practice Research Infrastructure Program) will build a partnership between university-based clinical services researchers at UCLA and USC and practitioners and consumers from a psychosocial rehabilitation service agency in Los Angeles, California (Portals). 

  •  The goal of this IP-RISP is to implement a research and practice agenda that will translate recent findings on psychobiological deficits in schizophrenia and their remediation into community-based rehabilitation practice.  We will address questions relevant to: (i) improving the effectiveness of community-based psychosocial rehabilitation interventions for functional disability in schizophrenia, and (ii) adapting and infusing new knowledge and new interventions into typical psychosocial rehabilitation practice settings in the community.  The ultimate objective is to increase the effectiveness of community-based psychosocial rehabilitation by transporting new knowledge and intervention methods into a typical care setting, with the targeted consumer outcomes of functional, clinical, and subjective experience domains that are critical to promoting recovery for individuals with schizophrenia.

  •  John Brekke is the overall PI for this project and the Greenlab will provide assistance in assessment of neurocognitive and psychophysiological processes and also the application of errorless learning approaches to intervention

·         WHO WOULD QUALIFY?  -

o Recruitment for this study is done at the various Portals Mental Health Rehabilitation    Service Areas (4 sites) in the  Los Angeles area by staff of the USC Department of Social Work. 

·         WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO? -

o        Total Testing Time - (varies between 4 - 6 hours)

§ Each participant will be asked to work with research staff in completing a questionnaire encompassing various aspects of personal, functional, family, and substance use history, etc. 

§ You will be asked to identify letters and numbers presented on a computer screen

§ Your body's electrical activity will be recorded in response to sounds (heart rate, and the activity of the sweat glands on your fingers)

§ You will be asked to identify emotions in pictures, audiotape, and videos of people interacting

§ You will be asked to perform learning and memory tests.

·         COMPENSATION?

o        Each participant will receive $25 for their participation in the study 

• CONTACT INFORMATION FOR QUESTIONS OR ENROLLMENT

• Mark Morales, Project Recruiter (310) 478-3711 ext. 49234  mamorales@mednet.ucla.edu

• Michael F. Green, Ph.D., Principal Investigator (310) 268-3376