BACKGROUND Studies from other countries indicate that occupational skills training can improve the social functioning and the quality of life of patients with schizophrenia but there is little research about the relationship of occupational skills and the functional status of patients in China. AIM Use a translated Chinese version of the Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Evaluation scale to ...

OBJECTIVES The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) was developed to assess the symptoms of schizophrenia dimensionally. Although it is widely used in clinical trials in Brazil, it is not fully validated. The aim of this study is to assess the factor structure of the Brazilian PANSS and generate validation data for its current version. METHODS A total of 292 patients diagnosed with sc...

Introduction Several factors related to the risk of requiring psychiatric hospitalization have been described in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia treated methods other than home treatment. With regard symptoms, high global illness severity and positive symptoms most frequently schizophrenia. However, there are no studies describing which clinical increase likelihood being hospitalized whil...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The likelihood of detecting a therapeutic signal of an effective drug for schizophrenia is impeded by a high placebo effect and by high dropout of patients. Several unsuccessful trials of schizophrenia, at least partly due to highly variable placebo effects, have indicated the necessity for a robust methodology to evaluate such a placebo effect and reasons for dropout....

There is a great paucity of studies on recovery in schizophrenia in India. Hence, this study was undertaken to assess (1) the relationship between disability and stages of recovery and (2) the relationship between disability, recovery and symptomatology. Data was collected from a convenience sample of 50 schizophrenia patients using semi structured proforma, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Quetiapine versus Risperidone in control of acute psychotic signs and symptoms in hospitalized patients during four weeks. METHODS In this double-blind, randomized controlled study, a total of 90 patients with a confirmed diagnosis acute psychosis and were hospitalized in Zare Hospital, Sari, Iran, and they were treated with...

Data from six randomised, controlled, comparative studies of risperidone and conventional neuroleptics (haloperidol, zuclopenthixol and perphenazine) in the treatment of 911 patients with chronic schizophrenia were analysed to estimate the benefits and risks of treatment. Efficacy and risk of treatment were assessed by means of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and the Extrapyram...

AIM The aim of the study was to assess the correlation between the level of working memory and executive functions impairment in schizophrenic subjects in their partial remission period and the intensity of psychopathological symptoms measured by PANSS scale. METHOD 45 patients with schizophrenia were included in the study (28 male and 17 female), aged 18-46 (mean 27 +/- 7) years during parti...

OBJECTIVE Recent studies have suggested that higher insulin levels are associated with better psychopathology profiles in cross-sectional samples of patients with schizophrenia. This study examines whether drug-induced fasting insulin changes between third and eight week of treatment are related to clinical improvement in non-diabetic patients receiving the atypical neuroleptics: risperidone or...