The 20-Year Longitudinal Trajectories of Social Functioning in Individuals With Psychotic Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Social impairment is a long-recognized core feature of schizophrenia and is common in other psychotic disorders. Still, to date the long-term trajectories of social impairment in psychotic disorders have rarely been studied systematically.

Methods

Data came from the Suffolk County Mental Health Project, a 20-year prospective study of first-admission patients with psychotic disorders. A never-psychotic comparison group was also assessed. Latent class growth analysis was applied to longitudinal data on social functioning from 485 respondents with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and psychotic mood disorders, and associations of the empirically derived trajectories with premorbid social adjustment, diagnosis, and 20-year outcomes were examined.

Results

Four mos

SUBMITTER: Velthorst E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5474222 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature