ArticleSchizophrenia research. Cognition2024
Ecological virtual reality-based cognitive remediation among inpatients with schizophrenia: A pilot study.
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- Cognitive rehabilitation in schizophrenia research: a bibliometric and visualization analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Executive functioning in schizophrenia using a novel virtual reality-simulated workplace: validity, test-retest reliability, and links to competitive employment.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Virtual reality-based cognitive remediation in severe mental illness: Current evidence from a narrative review.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Review
- How to Improve Cognitive Flexibility: Evidence From Noninvasive Neuromodulation Techniques.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Review
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Abstract
Schizophrenia presents a considerable clinical challenge due to limited progress in promoting daily-life functioning among diagnosed individuals. Although cognitive remediation (CR) has emerged as a promising approach to improving cognitive and functional outcomes in schizophrenia, its effectiveness among inpatients and within hospital environments-where opportunities to practice skills in real-world contexts are limited-remains unclear. Here, we aimed to establish the feasibility and initial efficacy of a short, ecological virtual reality-based CR training (CR-EVR) in acute mental health inpatient settings. Efficacy was assessed at four levels: training engagement, near transfer, far transfer, and ecological transfer. Twenty-three inpatients with schizophrenia (Male: 33.3 ± 8.5; 4 Female) completed 8, 20-min CR-EVR sessions, with exercises training the cognitive abilities of inhibition, planning, working memory, shifting, self-initiation, persistence, and attention. Their cognitive functioning, schizophrenia symptoms, functional capacity, and participation in occupations were evaluated pre- and post-training to address four levels of effectiveness. Of the recruited participants, 25.8 % dropped out. Inpatients who completed the full protocol reported high rates of satisfaction (1-not satisfied; 5-very satisfied)) from the intervention (Median = 4, IQR:3.5-5). Post-training, significant improvements were found in the trained cognitive components (intervention engagement: -6.58 < t/Z < 2.02,
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