Comparing Multiple Domains of Social Cognition in Schizophrenic Patients with vs. without Paranoid Symptoms

Abstract Date Presented 04/19/21 The Social Cognition Screening Questionnaire–Taiwan version (SCSQT) was designed to assess multiple domains of social cognition in people with schizophrenia in Taiwan. The SCSQT contains five subscales and provides estimates of the core domains of mentalizing and social perception and an overall social cognition score. Our validation of SCSQT indicated that the SCSQT had good test–retest reliability, acceptable random measurement error, and negligible practice effects. Primary Author and Speaker: Shu-Chun Lee Additional Authors and Speakers: Trudy Mallinson Contributing Authors: Alison M. Cogan, Ann Guernon, Katherine O'Brien, and Piper Hansen

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Social Cognition and Sense of Belonging among Institutionalized Schizophrenic Patients

Evidence-Based Nursing Research ◽

10.47104/ebnrojs3.v1i3.51 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 11

Author(s):

Fatma N. Kotb

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Cognition ◽

Cognitive Abilities ◽

Sense Of Belonging ◽

Addiction Treatment ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Healthy Relationships ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

Schizophrenic Patients

Context: Schizophrenia is one of the perilous mental health problems. It hinders the patient’s capability of thinking clearly, making life decisions, managing their emotions, and building healthy relationships. Aim: This study aimed to explore the relationship between social cognition and sense of belonging among institutionalized schizophrenic patients. Methods: The study used a descriptive research design to achieve the aim of this study. This research carried out in the inpatient unit of Minia Hospital for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment. A convenient sample of 100 institutionalized schizophrenic patients recruited in the current study. Three tools used to collect data of this study include socio-demographic and medical data questionnaire, Observable Social Cognition Rating Scale, and Sense of Belonging scale. Results: The main findings of this study revealed that more than three fourth of schizophrenic patients had low levels of social cognition, and sense of belonging. There was a significant positive relationship between social cognition and sense of belonging of institutionalized schizophrenic patients. Conclusion: The current study concluded that institutionalized schizophrenic patients have a positive connection between their social cognition and a sense of belonging. Recommendations: The study recommended that, schizophrenic patient in a very high need for psycho-educational program for improving their cognitive abilities, which will improve their social cognition and interaction with others and enhance their sense of belonging.

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Theory of mind impairments in schizophrenia: symptomatology, severity and specificity

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291701003385 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 207-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 205

Author(s):

GRAHAM J. PICKUP ◽

CHRISTOPHER D. FRITH

Keyword(s):

Theory Of Mind ◽

Matched Control ◽

Single Case ◽

Mental States ◽

Second Order ◽

Problem Solving Skills ◽

Weak Evidence ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

Paranoid Symptoms ◽

Low Iq

Background. Several studies have examined the ability of schizophrenic patients to represent mental states (‘theory of mind'; ToM). There is consensus that some patients have impaired ToM, but there is disagreement about the relation between ToM and symptomatology, and about the severity and specificity of the deficit.Methods. Two first-order and one second-order false belief tests of ToM were given to groups of schizophrenic patients and psychiatric and normal controls. The relation between ToM and symptomatology was explored using regression and symptom subgroup analyses. Severity was investigated by using the same task methodology as in autism research, to enable direct comparison with that disorder. Specificity was investigated using matched control tasks which were as difficult as the ToM tasks, but did not require ToM.Results. Symptom subgroup analysis showed that schizophrenic patients with behavioural signs were impaired relative to controls on ToM, and that remitted patients and a single case with passivity symptoms performed as well as controls. Regression analysis showed that ratings of behavioural signs predicted impaired ToM in schizophrenia. There was weak evidence that a subgroup with paranoid symptoms had ToM impairments, although these were associated with low IQ. Schizophrenic patients only showed ToM deficits on the second-order task. No impairments appeared on the matched control tasks which did not require ToM.Conclusions. There is a clear association between ToM impairment and behavioural signs in schizophrenia. Deficits in paranoid patients are harder to detect with current tasks and may be compensated for by IQ-dependent problem-solving skills. ToM impairments in schizophrenia are less severe than in autism, but are specific and not a reflection of general cognitive deficits.

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Neurocognition and social cognition in remitted first-episode schizophrenia: correlation with VEGF serum levels

BMC Psychiatry ◽

10.1186/s12888-019-2397-8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yaqin Zhao ◽

Wenhuan Xiao ◽

Kuanyu Chen ◽

Qiongqiong Zhan ◽

Fei Ye ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Cognition ◽

Digit Span ◽

Verbal Learning ◽

Serum Levels ◽

First Episode ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

Trail Making ◽

Learning Test ◽

First Episode Schizophrenia ◽

Endothelial Growth Factor

Abstract Background Accumulating evidence suggests that serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in many neurobiological processes potentially contributes to the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders, particularly cognitive decline. The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in neurocognition, social cognition and VEGF among remitted first-episode schizophrenic patients, non-remitters and normal control subjects. Moreover, we investigated the association between serum VEGF levels and cognitive functions. Method 65 remission (RS) and 45 nonremission patients (NRS) after first-episode schizophrenia, as well as 58 healthy controls (HC) were enrolled in this study. Social cognition was assessed using the Chinese Facial Emotion Test (CFET); neurocognition was measured with a test battery consisting of Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised, Verbal Fluency Test, Trail Making Tests, Digit Span Tests (DST) and Stroop Tests. Blood samples were collected for VEGF measurements. Data was analyzed with SPSS 22.0 (Chicago, IL, USA). Results On nearly all neurocognitive tests (except for DST), RS performed significantly worse than HC but better than NRS (P < 0.05). NRS, but not RS, exhibited markedly poorer social cognition than HC (except for Happiness and Surprise subscales of the CFET) (P < 0.05). VEGF levels showed a gradient change among three groups (HC > RS > NRS). Conclusion Compared to HC, RS demonstrated poorer neurocognitive but intact social cognition functioning. These results indicate that VEGF levels decreased gradually with the severity of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. VEGF may be involved in the pathological mechanism of cognitive performance in RS.

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Chronic Schizophrenic Patients in the Community

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/s0007125000283268 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 132 (3) ◽

pp. 221-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

A. J. Cheadle ◽

H. L. Freeman ◽

J. Korer

Keyword(s):

Local Population ◽

Great Majority ◽

Psychiatric Services ◽

Drop Out ◽

Personal Problems ◽

Never Married ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

Paranoid Symptoms ◽

Long Acting ◽

State Examination

SummaryA sample of 190 patients, diagnosed as schizophrenic by the same psychiatrist, have been surveyed in an urban community and their clinical and social status assessed. Compared to the local population as a whole, a significantly greater proportion of the men had never married, and although the women had married at approximately the same rate as those in the general population, 25 per cent of them had been divorced by the time of the interview. Assessments of the subjects' clinical condition by the Present State Examination were analysed into four groups of syndromes. Only 27 patients showed schizophrenic or paranoid symptoms, whereas neurotic symptoms were not only prevalent but seemed to cause most of the reported personal problems. Twenty-eight patients were free of symptoms at the time of interview. The great majority of the sample (72 per cent) were being maintained on long-acting neuroleptics. These data will form the baseline to assess a monitoring system, designed to keep the local psychiatric services in touch with schizophrenic patients who might otherwise drop out of treatment.

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A Short Scale for Rating Paranoid Schizophrenia

Journal of Mental Science ◽

10.1192/bjp.105.440.815 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 105 (440) ◽

pp. 815-818 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

P. H. Venables ◽

N. O'Connor

Keyword(s):

Rating Scale ◽

Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽

Experimental Studies ◽

Short Scale ◽

Chronic Schizophrenics ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

Experimental Laboratory ◽

Paranoid Symptoms

Experimental studies by O'Connor (2) and O'Connor and Rawnsley (3) have indicated the value of separating chronic schizophrenics into those who exhibit and those who do not exhibit paranoid symptoms. Other work by O'Connor and Venables (4) and Venables and O'Connor (6) has shown that performance of schizophrenic patients on experimental laboratory tasks may be clarified by dividing them into active or withdrawn groups by means of a rating scale (Venables, 5) in addition to a division on the basis of the presence of paranoid symptoms.

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Neuropsychology, social cognition and global functioning among bipolar, schizophrenic patients and healthy controls: preliminary data

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ◽

10.3389/fnhum.2013.00661 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Elisabetta Caletti ◽

Riccardo A. Paoli ◽

Alessio Fiorentini ◽

Michela Cigliobianco ◽

Elisa Zugno ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Cognition ◽

Preliminary Data ◽

Healthy Controls ◽

Global Functioning ◽

Schizophrenic Patients

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Context-sensitive social cognition is impaired in schizophrenic patients and their healthy relatives

Schizophrenia Research ◽

10.1016/j.schres.2009.10.017 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 116 (2-3) ◽

pp. 297-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

R. Riveros ◽

F. Manes ◽

E. Hurtado ◽

M. Escobar ◽

M. Martin Reyes ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Cognition ◽

Context Sensitive ◽

Schizophrenic Patients

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Schizophrenia and the Perception of Emotions

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.155.2.225 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 155 (2) ◽

pp. 225-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Philip Cramer ◽

Martin Weegman ◽

Mike O'Neill

Keyword(s):

Thought Disorder ◽

General Level ◽

Check List ◽

Formal Thought Disorder ◽

Dominant Character ◽

Adjective Check List ◽

Schizophrenic Patients ◽

Patient Stay ◽

Paranoid Symptoms ◽

Perception Of Emotions

Audiovisual tapes of emotional situations were shown to 34 schizophrenics and 15 controls who were asked to rate the emotional content of the scenes using an adjective check-list. The schizophrenic patients failed to detect the dominant character of the scenes, and perceived the opposite emotions to those perceived by the controls. Such deviant responses were not related to paranoid symptoms, flattened affect, formal thought disorder, general level of morbidity, or duration of in-patient stay.

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