IRCT2013091414499N3 IRCT 2013-12-07 Research and Technology Deputy Office of University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences The effects of living skills training on treatment of the patients with Schizophrenia. Randomized controlled trial of Social and Independent Living Skills Training on function and quality of life for Schizophrenic Patients 2013-11-16 anticipated 160 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/14119 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Single blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Treatment, Other design features: Eligible patients will be randomly allocated into two intervention and control groups. There is equal allocation of participants between arms. Eligible participants will be assigned by stratified balanced block randomization method with allocation concealment. The allocation lists will be generated independently by the trial statistician. This is a single blind study because patients are not blind to their treatment group. The assessors will not be selected from among the trainers or therapists. 0 (exploratory trials) Schizophrenia. Intervention 1: Intervention for control group (occupational therapy): The control group will receive psychosocial services including group therapy (group discussion), leisure activities, arts and structured activities. Like the intervention group, the patients in the control group will attend occupational therapy sessions three times per week at outpatient centers and five times per week at inpatient centers, for 90 to 120 minutes per session. Intervention 2: The treatment for the intervention group is the independent and social living skills package. These skills include medication and symptom management, leisure management and basic conversational skills. Also family members of the intervention group will participate, as a generalization agent, in separate sessions (four sessions) where they will be provided with information concerning learned skills as well as problem solving and home assignment. Moreover, the family will be contacted by phone (once a month) during the follow-up period (transition of skills to the home). Interventions will be conducted three times per week at outpatient centers and five times per week at inpatient centers, for 90 to 120 minutes per session.