APPLICATION OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION TRAINING AND ITS IMPACT ON COGNITIVE INSIGHT IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

Abstract

Aim: To assess the effect of executive function re-training on cognitive insight among patients with Schizophrenia. 10 patients with Methodology: schizophrenia (diagnosed as per ICD-10 criteria) having signicant cognitive decits and compliant to intervention were assessed on Executive dysfunctions (Stroop test), and Beck's Cognitive insight Scale (BCIS). These were followed by Executive function training to the participants randomly assigned to the Experimental Group while the remaining 5 formed the control group. Both the groups went through post assessment on the same variables. In the test of executive functioning the experimental group Result: who had received executive function training had performed signicantly better than the control group of patients in the study (p<0.05), and that on BCIS the domains of self-reectiveness, self-certainty and composite index showed signicant improvement post intervention as compared to control group (p<0.01). The present study Conclusions: suggests that in patients with schizophrenia having poor cognitive exibility and executive dysfunction, the executive function retraining improves the executive functioning and signicantly impacts the cognitive insight.