Violent behavior and the network properties of psychopathological symptoms and real-life functioning in patients with schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the interplay among psychopathological symptoms and real-life functioning, and to further detect their influence with violent behavior in patient with schizophrenia.

Methods

A sample of 1,664 patients with post-violence assessments and their propensity score-matched controls without violence from a disease registration report system of community mental health service in Guangdong, China, were studied by network analysis. Ising-Model was used to estimate networks of psychopathological symptoms and real-life functioning. Then, we tested whether network properties indicated the patterns of interaction were different between cases and controls, and calculated centrality indices of each node to identify the central nodes. Sensitivity analysis was conduc

SUBMITTER: Chen LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10808501 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature