T59. VIRTUAL REALTY ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY IN EARLY SCHIZOPHRENIA: ASSOCIATIONS WITH NEUROCOGNITION, FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY PERFORMANCE, AND DAILY FUNCTIONING

Virtual reality functional capacity assessment in schizophrenia: Preliminary data regarding feasibility and correlations with cognitive and functional capacity performance

INTRODUCTION Assessment of functional capacity is an intrinsic part of determining the functional relevance of response to treatment of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. Existing methods are highly and consistently correlated with performance on neuropsychological tests, but most current assessments of functional capacity are still paper and pencil simulations. We developed a computerized ...

Functional capacity: a new framework for the assessment of everyday functioning in schizophrenia.

Historically, measures of everyday functioning have focused exclusively on real-world performance. Despite the unquestionable value of "real-world functioning", it has become clear that instruments for its assessment might not be as accurate as desirable. Functional capacity is a domain of everyday functioning that can be assessed through performance-based measures. In the last decade, function...

Cognitive Performance as a Predictor of Functional Capacity in Schizophrenia

Assessment of Age-Related Differences in Functional Capacity Using the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool (VRFCAT).

Clinical trials for primary prevention and early intervention in preclinical AD require measures of functional capacity with improved sensitivity to deficits in healthier, non-demented individuals. To this end, the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool (VRFCAT) was developed as a direct performance-based assessment of functional capacity that is sensitive to changes in function ac...

Predictive factors of functional capacity and real-world functioning in patients with schizophrenia.

PURPOSE This study was performed to identify the predictive factors of functional capacity assessed by the Spanish University of California Performance Skills Assessment (Sp-UPSA) and real-world functioning assessed by the Spanish Personal and Social Performance scale (PSP) in outpatients with schizophrenia. METHODS Naturalistic, 6-month follow-up, multicentre, validation study. Here, we repo...