Friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>Having friends is associated with more favourable clinical outcomes and a higher quality of life in mental disorders. Patients with schizophrenia have fewer friends than other mentally ill patients. No large scale studies have evaluated so far what symptom dimensions o...

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Autores principales:	Domenico Giacco, Rose McCabe, Thomas Kallert, Lars Hansson, Andrea Fiorillo, Stefan Priebe
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c52cbf3ddefd47038a167c9d6a755ebf2021-11-18T08:07:47ZFriends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0050119https://doaj.org/article/c52cbf3ddefd47038a167c9d6a755ebf2012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23185552/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>Having friends is associated with more favourable clinical outcomes and a higher quality of life in mental disorders. Patients with schizophrenia have fewer friends than other mentally ill patients. No large scale studies have evaluated so far what symptom dimensions of schizophrenia are associated with the lack of friendships.<h4>Methods</h4>Data from four multi-centre studies on outpatients with schizophrenia and related disorders (ICD F20-29) were included in a pooled analysis (N = 1396). We established whether patients had close friends and contact with friends by using the equivalent items on friendships of the Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life or of the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile. Symptoms were measured by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale or by the identical items included in the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale.<h4>Results</h4>Seven hundred and sixty-nine patients (55.1%) had seen a friend in the previous week and 917 (65.7%) had someone they regarded as a close friend. Low levels of negative symptoms and hostility were significantly associated with having a close friend and contact with a friend. Overall, almost twice as many patients with absent or mild negative symptoms had met a friend in the last week, compared with those with moderate negative symptoms.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Higher levels of negative symptoms and hostility are specifically associated with the lack of friendships in patients with psychotic disorders. These findings suggest the importance of developing effective treatments for negative symptoms and hostility in order to improve the probability of patients with schizophrenia to have friends.Domenico GiaccoRose McCabeThomas KallertLars HanssonAndrea FiorilloStefan PriebePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 11, p e50119 (2012)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Domenico Giacco Rose McCabe Thomas Kallert Lars Hansson Andrea Fiorillo Stefan Priebe Friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.
description	<h4>Background</h4>Having friends is associated with more favourable clinical outcomes and a higher quality of life in mental disorders. Patients with schizophrenia have fewer friends than other mentally ill patients. No large scale studies have evaluated so far what symptom dimensions of schizophrenia are associated with the lack of friendships.<h4>Methods</h4>Data from four multi-centre studies on outpatients with schizophrenia and related disorders (ICD F20-29) were included in a pooled analysis (N = 1396). We established whether patients had close friends and contact with friends by using the equivalent items on friendships of the Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life or of the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile. Symptoms were measured by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale or by the identical items included in the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale.<h4>Results</h4>Seven hundred and sixty-nine patients (55.1%) had seen a friend in the previous week and 917 (65.7%) had someone they regarded as a close friend. Low levels of negative symptoms and hostility were significantly associated with having a close friend and contact with a friend. Overall, almost twice as many patients with absent or mild negative symptoms had met a friend in the last week, compared with those with moderate negative symptoms.<h4>Conclusions</h4>Higher levels of negative symptoms and hostility are specifically associated with the lack of friendships in patients with psychotic disorders. These findings suggest the importance of developing effective treatments for negative symptoms and hostility in order to improve the probability of patients with schizophrenia to have friends.
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author	Domenico Giacco Rose McCabe Thomas Kallert Lars Hansson Andrea Fiorillo Stefan Priebe
author_facet	Domenico Giacco Rose McCabe Thomas Kallert Lars Hansson Andrea Fiorillo Stefan Priebe
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title	Friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.
title_short	Friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.
title_full	Friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.
title_fullStr	Friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.
title_full_unstemmed	Friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.
title_sort	friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2012
url	https://doaj.org/article/c52cbf3ddefd47038a167c9d6a755ebf
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Friends and symptom dimensions in patients with psychosis: a pooled analysis.

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