RT journal article
T1 Efficacy of the Therapeutic Game “Trisquel” in the Treatment of Patients With Substance-Related Disorders Randomized Clinical Study
A1 Piñón-Blanco, Adolfo
A1 Vergara Moragues, Esperanza
A1 Gutiérrez-Martínez, Olga
A1 Fernández-Palleiro, Patricia
A1 Rodrigues, Sonia
A1 Rodrigues-Amorím, Daniela
A1 Lage-López, María Teresa
A1 González-López, Ana
A1 Velasquez, Teresa
A1 Amorim, Mónica
A1 Lloves-Moratinos, Manuel
A1 Viéitez-Fernández, Isabel
A1 Sabio-Fernandez, Gerardo
A1 Graña-Torralba, Rebeca
A1 Vilar-Díaz, Vanesa
A1 Carrera-Machado, Indalecio
A1 Cancelo-Martinez, Jesús
A1 Ferreira, Adelino
A1 Cardoso, Susana
A1 Rivera-Baltanás, Tania
A1 Otero-Lamas, Francisco
A1 Olivares, José Manuel
A1 Spuch, Carlos
A2 Psicología
K1 substance-related disorders
K1 cognitive impairment
K1 neuropsychological rehabilitation
K1 psychoeducation
K1 Trisquel
AB Substance-related disorders (SRD) have been consistently associated with alterations both in cognitive and executive functions, which affect to patients’ quality of life. The main objective of this work was to test the beneficial cognitive effects on patients with SRD after the implementation of “Trisquel,” an intervention program in board game format. To check the effectiveness of Trisquel program, a group of people diagnosed with SRD was randomly assigned either to the experimental group or to the control group. The experimental group performed Trisquel structured sessions twice a week during 3 months, while the control group performed routinely conventional therapeutic activities with the same frequency and duration. Neuropsychological tests were done to both groups before and after the intervention. After the 3 months of intervention the experimental group showed the following statistically significant improvements for WAIS-III subtests: number key, symbol search, arithmetic, direct digits, inverse digits, total digits, letters-numbers in the processing speed index and in the working memory index. Regarding STROOP tests, statistically significant progress was observed in the phonetic fluency letter P, phonetic fluency letter M, phonetic fluency letter R subtests, word-reading and word-color subtests. The control group only obtained improvements for WAIS-III subtests of arithmetic, letters-numbers and in the working memory index. The results of this study confirm that “Trisquel” is an effective intervention program for people diagnosed with SRD, getting improvements in processing speed (psychomotor and reading), attentional subprocesses (focused and sustained) and executive functions (updating and inhibition).
SN 1664-0640
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33116
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/33116
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-may-2026