Computerized text and voice analysis of patients with chronic schizophrenia in art therapy.

ABSTRACT: This explorative study of patients with chronic schizophrenia aimed to clarify whether group art therapy followed by a therapist-guided picture review could influence patients' communication behaviour. Data on voice and speech characteristics were obtained via objective technological instruments, and these characteristics were selected as indicators of communication behaviour. Seven patients were recruited to participate in weekly group art therapy over a period of 6 months. Three days after each group meeting, they talked about their last picture during a standardized interview that was digitally recorded. The audio recordings were evaluated using validated computer-assisted procedures, the transcribed texts were evaluated using the German version of the LIWC2015 program, and the voice re

SUBMITTER: Sprotte Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10520069 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature