Introduction: Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with impaired cognitive functions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive-compensatory training on cognitive functions of patients with chronic schizophrenia.
Methods: This quasi-experimental design was carried out using a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The population of this study was all chronic schizophrenia patients admitted to Rezaei psychiatric hospital and a sample of all women and men who were able to cooperate in Rezaei psychiatric hospital in Tehran. Samples were available and a sample size of 20 people were randomly assigned into two groups of 10 Intervention and control groups. Lastly, due to the drop in the number of subjects, the number of each group fell to seven. Then the Intervention group received Compensatory Cognitive Training (CCT) for 8 sessions. The cognitive examination of the Aden Brook Cognitive Instrument (ACE-R)) 2008) was used and the hypothesis of the research was calculated by multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance Test.
Results: Findings showed that Compensatory Cognitive Training has improved cognitive functions (except for memory) in patients with chronic schizophrenia (P<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results, the use of non-medical methods such as Compensatory Cognitive Training is recommended in improving the cognitive function of schizophrenia.