Cognitive Remediation Program for Hospitalized in the Long Term Patients With Deficit Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a chronic disease with deficit in social interaction and lost of autonomy in daily life. Negative symptoms as blunted affect, avolition, social deficit and anhedonia and cognition were prognosis and functioning key's factors. Psychotropic medications have shown only poor effect to improve negative symptoms and cognition as attention, memory and cognitive flexibility. So, cognitive remediation programs were developped to focus cognitive disorders. The IPT (Integrated Psychological Treatment) is one of the most complete program with modules on cognitive and social abilities. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of IPT+ program to improve autonomy capacities of long stay inpatients suffering from schizophrenia 6 at the end of the program With IPT+ this study will improve autonomy capacities for patients suffering from deficit schizophrenia and allowed patients to go out hospital earlier than before.