Predictors of social cognition in patients with schizophrenia
| Autor: | Alessandro Rossi, Enrico Daneluzzo, Silvia Di Tommaso, Paolo Stratta, Daniela Mirabilio, Ilaria Riccardi, Massimo Marinelli, L. D'Albenzio |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
social reasoning business.industry Global Assessment of Functioning community functioning Cognition General Medicine social cognition Life skills medicine.disease contextual reasoning behavioral disciplines and activities Wason selection task schizophrenia sustained attention Social cognition Schizophrenia Scale (social sciences) mental disorders medicine Psychiatry business Neurocognitive Clinical psychology Original Research |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment |
| ISSN: | 1178-2021 1176-6328 |
| Popis: | The goal of this study is to explore neurocognitive, clinical and community functioning variables in order to predict “social reasoning” in a sample of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenic disorder. Cognitive and community functioning, and social reasoning have been evaluated, together with the Positive and Negative Syndromes Scale (PANSS) and DSM-IV Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), in a sample of 46 patients who met the DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia. Our findings show that global functioning as reflected by GAF is the strongest predictor of the social reasoning as evaluated by the Wason’s Selection Task (WST). Other community functioning variables such as the Life Skills Profile (LSP) sub-scores do not provide significant prediction of social reasoning. Similarly, neurocognitive measures, in terms of attention and contextual reasoning, have no predictive effect on social reasoning. Our findings show that social cognition should be considered as an additional cognitive domain more related to functional outcome. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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