Premorbid academic and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia and its associations with negative symptoms and cognition

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OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to explore premorbid academic and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia, and its associations with the severity of negative symptoms and neurocognitive impairment.

METHOD: Premorbid adjustment (PA) in patients with schizophrenia was compared to early adjustment in unaffected first-degree relatives and healthy controls. Its associations with psychopathology, cognition, and real-life functioning were investigated. The associations of PA with primary negative symptoms and their two factors were explored.

RESULTS: We found an impairment of academic and social PA in patients (P ≤ 0.000001) and an impairment of academic aspects of early adjustment in relatives (P ≤ 0.01). Patients with poor PA showed greater severity of negative symptoms (limited to avolition after excluding the effect of depression/parkinsonism), working memory, social cognition, and real-life functioning (P ≤ 0.01 to ≤0.000001). Worse academic and social PA were associated with greater severity of psychopathology, cognitive impairment, and real-life functioning impairment (P ≤ 0.000001). Regression analyses showed that worse PA in the academic domain was mainly associated to the impairment of working memory, whereas worse PA in the social domain to avolition (P ≤ 0.000001).

CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that poor early adjustment may represent a marker of vulnerability to schizophrenia and highlight the need for preventive/early interventions based on psychosocial and/or cognitive programs.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:138

Enthalten in:

Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica - 138(2018), 3 vom: 30. Sept., Seite 253-266

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bucci, P [VerfasserIn]
Galderisi, S [VerfasserIn]
Mucci, A [VerfasserIn]
Rossi, A [VerfasserIn]
Rocca, P [VerfasserIn]
Bertolino, A [VerfasserIn]
Aguglia, E [VerfasserIn]
Amore, M [VerfasserIn]
Andriola, I [VerfasserIn]
Bellomo, A [VerfasserIn]
Biondi, M [VerfasserIn]
Cuomo, A [VerfasserIn]
dell'Osso, L [VerfasserIn]
Favaro, A [VerfasserIn]
Gambi, F [VerfasserIn]
Giordano, G M [VerfasserIn]
Girardi, P [VerfasserIn]
Marchesi, C [VerfasserIn]
Monteleone, P [VerfasserIn]
Montemagni, C [VerfasserIn]
Niolu, C [VerfasserIn]
Oldani, L [VerfasserIn]
Pacitti, F [VerfasserIn]
Pinna, F [VerfasserIn]
Roncone, R [VerfasserIn]
Vita, A [VerfasserIn]
Zeppegno, P [VerfasserIn]
Maj, M [VerfasserIn]
Italian Network for Research on Psychoses [VerfasserIn]
Patriarca, Sara [Sonstige Person]
Pietrafesa, Daria [Sonstige Person]
Aiello, Carmen [Sonstige Person]
Longo, Luisa [Sonstige Person]
Barone, Marina [Sonstige Person]
Romano, Raffaella [Sonstige Person]
Atti, Anna Rita [Sonstige Person]
Barlati, Stefano [Sonstige Person]
Deste, Giacomo [Sonstige Person]
Valsecchi, Paolo [Sonstige Person]
Carpiniello, Bernardo [Sonstige Person]
Tusconi, Massimo [Sonstige Person]
Puddu, Laura [Sonstige Person]
Signorelli, Maria Salvina [Sonstige Person]
Cannavò, Dario [Sonstige Person]
Minutolo, Giuseppe [Sonstige Person]
Corbo, Mariangela [Sonstige Person]
Montemitro, Chiara [Sonstige Person]
Baroni, Gaia [Sonstige Person]
Altamura, Mario [Sonstige Person]
La Montagna, Maddalena [Sonstige Person]
Carnevale, Raffaella [Sonstige Person]
Murri, Martino Belvederi [Sonstige Person]
Calcagno, Pietro [Sonstige Person]
Bugliani, Michele [Sonstige Person]
Pizziconi, Giulia [Sonstige Person]
Logozzo, Francesca [Sonstige Person]
Rossi, Rodolfo [Sonstige Person]
Giusti, Laura [Sonstige Person]
Salza, Anna [Sonstige Person]
Malavolta, Maurizio [Sonstige Person]
Orsenigo, Giulia [Sonstige Person]
Grassi, Silvia [Sonstige Person]
De Bartolomeis, Andrea [Sonstige Person]
Gramaglia, Carla [Sonstige Person]
Gattoni, Eleonora [Sonstige Person]
Gambaro, Eleonora [Sonstige Person]
Tenconi, Elena [Sonstige Person]
Ferronato, Luisa [Sonstige Person]
Collantoni, Enrico [Sonstige Person]
Tonna, Matteo [Sonstige Person]
Ossola, Paolo [Sonstige Person]
Gerra, Maria Lidia [Sonstige Person]
Carmassi, Claudia [Sonstige Person]
Cremone, Ivan Mirko [Sonstige Person]
Carpita, Barbara [Sonstige Person]
Buzzanca, Antonio [Sonstige Person]
Girardi, Nicoletta [Sonstige Person]
Frascarelli, Marianna [Sonstige Person]
Del Casale, Antonio [Sonstige Person]
Comparelli, Anna [Sonstige Person]
Corigliano, Valentina [Sonstige Person]
Siracusano, Alberto [Sonstige Person]
Di Lorenzo, Giorgio [Sonstige Person]
Ribolsi, Michele [Sonstige Person]
Corrivetti, Giulio [Sonstige Person]
Bartoli, Luca [Sonstige Person]
Del Buono, Gianfranco [Sonstige Person]
Fagiolini, Andrea [Sonstige Person]
Bolognesi, Simone [Sonstige Person]
Goracci, Arianna [Sonstige Person]
Mancini, Irene [Sonstige Person]
Bava, Irene [Sonstige Person]
Cardillo, Simona [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Avolition
Cognitive functioning
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Poor emotion expression
Premorbid adjustment
Primary negative symptoms
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 14.10.2019

Date Revised 14.10.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/acps.12938

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM286271168