Table 3.

Effect of Different Types of SCT vs Treatment as Usual on Social Cognition, Social Functioning and Psychiatric Symptoms at Posttreatment

	k	m	I 2 (%)	Cohen’s d [95% Confidence Interval]
Outcome				ACC	SCTT	SCTT+	SCTB	SCTB+
Emotion perception	31	33	99.9	−0.29* [−0.59, −0.00]	0.68* [0.38, 0.97]	0.29 [−0.14, 0.72]	0.46* [0.21, 0.72]	−0.09 [−0.25, 0.45]
Social perception	9	11	99.8	0.98* [0.37, 1.60]	1.36* [0.81, 1.91]	1.38* [0.41, 2.36]	1.35* [0.80, 1.60]	1.45* [0.98, 1.92]
Theory of mind	22	24	99.9	−0.26 [−0.73, 0.21]	0.28 [−0.38, 0.92]	−0.17 [−0.90, 0.56]	0.42* [0.03, 0.82]	0.05 [−0.49, 0.60]
Attribution style	11	13	100	0.15 [−0.40, 0.71]	0.00 [−0.70, 0.70]	N/A	−0.08 [−0.53, 0.38]	0.16 [−0.42, 0.74]
Social cognition, miscellaneous	13	13	100	−0.62* [−1.21, −0.04]	−0.00 [−0.86, 0.85]	−0.29 [−0.90, 0.32]	0.08 [−0.44, 0.60]	0.22 [−0.62, 1.06]
Social functioning	25	27	100	0.14 [−0.24, 0.51]	0.12 [−0.46, 0.69]	−0.34 [−0.86, 0.19]	0.82* [0.46, 1.18]	0.41* [0.06, 0.77]
Psychiatric symptoms	24	26	100	0.04 [−0.42, 0.50]	0.15 [−0.36, 0.65]	−0.31 [−0.94, 0.31]	0.44 [−0.06, 0.93]	0.32 [−0.14, 0.77]

Note: k, number of studies; m, number of pairwise comparisons; ACC, Active control group; CRT, Cognitive remediation therapy; SCTT, Targeted social cognition training (without CRT); SCTT+, Targeted social cognition training (with CRT); SCTB, Broad-based social cognition training (without CRT); SCTB+, Broad-based social cognition training (with CRT).

*Significant at α = .05.