Impaired Effort Allocation in Patients with Recent-Onset Schizophrenia and Its Relevance to Negative Symptoms Assessments and Persistent Negative Symptoms.

ABSTRACT: (1) Background: Our aims in this study were (i) to compare effort allocation capacity measured between patients with recent-onset schizophrenia (SCZ) and healthy controls (HCs), (ii) within the SCZ, to investigate the association of effort allocation capacity with negative symptoms (NS), and (iii) to compare this association with the type of NS scale used. (2) Methods: Thirty-one patients with SCZ and 30 HCs participated in the study. The NS was examined using an older-generation (Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms, SANS), a newer-generation (Brief Negative Symptoms Scale, BNSS), and a self-rated (Self-evaluation of Negative Symptoms Scale, SNS) negative symptom scale, as well as longitudinally by using persistent NS (PNS) distinction. (3) Results: The SCZ group was less willing

SUBMITTER: Ince Guliyev E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9457458 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature