Individual trajectories of cognitive performance in first episode psychosis: a 2-year follow-up study

Autor: Isabel Morales-Muñoz, Iluminada Corripio, Eduardo Jesús Aguilar, Ramón Landin-Romero, LETICIA GARCIA-ALVAREZ, ANGELA IBAÑEZ, Miquel Bioque, Vicent Balanzá-Martínez, Anna Alonso, Ana María González-Pinto, Gisela Mezquida, Edith Pomarol-Clotet, Leyre Urigüen, Salvador Sarró, Jose Menchon, Ángel Luis Del Rey Mejías, Ana Maria Sánchez-Torres, Silvia Amoretti, Jose Manuel Lopez-Ilundain, BIBIANA CABRERA, Manuel J. Cuesta, JESSICA MERCHÁN NARANJO, Itxaso González-Ortega, Miquel Bernardo, Rafael Segarra, Anna Mane santacana, Eduard Vieta
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
r-FSJD. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica de la Fundació Sant Joan de Déu
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r-FSJD: Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica de la Fundació Sant Joan de Déu
Fundació Sant Joan de Déu
ISSN: 1433-8491
0940-1334
Popis: Individual changes over time in cognition in patients with psychotic disorders have been studied very little, especially in the case of first episode psychosis (FEP). We aimed to establish whether change in individual trajectories in cognition over 2 years of a sample of 159 FEP patients was reliable and clinically significant, using the reliable change index (RCI) and clinically significant change (CSC) methods. We also studied a sample of 151 matched healthy controls. Patients and controls were assessed with a set of neuropsychological tests, as well as premorbid, clinical and functionality measures. We analysed the course of cognitive measures over time, using analysis of variance, and the individual trajectories in the cognitive measures with the regression-based RCI (RCI(SRB)) and the CSC. The RCI(SRB) showed that between 5.4 and 31.2% of the patients showed deterioration patterns, and between 0.6 and 8.8% showed improvement patterns in these tests over time. Patients showing better cognitive profiles according to RCI(SRB) (worsening in zero to two cognitive measures) showed better premorbid, clinical and functional profiles than patients showing deterioration patterns in more than three tests. When combining RCI(SRB) and CSC values, we found that less than 10% of patients showed improvement or deterioration patterns in executive function and attention measures. These results support the view that cognitive impairments are stable over the first 2 years of illness, but also that the analysis of individual trajectories could help to identify a subgroup of patients with particular phenotypes, who may require specific interventions.
Databáze: OpenAIRE