Psychometric and clinical evaluation of schizophrenia remission criteria in outpatients with psychotic disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia have debilitating effects on health and functioning. Given symptomatic remission's recent emergence as a viable treatment goal, the Remission in Schizophrenia Working Group's criteria (RSWG-cr), based on eight items from the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS-8), are frequently used in clinical and research settings. Against that background, we sought to evaluate the PANSS-8's psychometric properties and examine the RSWG-cr's clinical validity among outpatients in Sweden.

Methods

Cross-sectional register data were collected from outpatient psychosis clinics in Gothenburg, Sweden. Following confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses of PANSS-8 data (n = 1,744) to assess the PANSS-8's psychometric properties, inte

SUBMITTER: Sakinyte K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10052840 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature