A question of time: A study of time use in people with schizophrenia

Abstract

Alongside significant effects on functional economic activities schizophrenia has also a profound impact on activities that make life enjoyable. Mapping time use will be a useful additional tool to assess progress towards recovery.

Exploring the relationship between the anticipation and experience of pleasure in people with schizophrenia: An experience sampling study

“…This group also reported more time “doing nothing” than control participants, despite higher anticipatory pleasure for other activities. These results are in line with a recent study that showed people with schizophrenia spend more time in unstructured activity in comparison to other general population groups (Cella et al, 2016).…”

The nuts and bolts of Cognitive Remediation: Exploring how different training components relate to cognitive and functional gains

“…For this study we extracted five factors from the PANSS: Positive Symptoms (Pos), Negative Symptoms (Neg), Disorganised (Dis), Excited (Exc) and Negative Emotion Depressed (Emd) (Cella et al, 2014b;Wallwork et al, 2012). Functioning was assessed using the Time use survey (Cella et al, 2016a;Short, 2006). This is a semi-structured interview asking participants to retrospectively report the time spent in a variety of everyday activities such as work, education, voluntary work, leisure, sports, socialising, hobbies, resting, housework/chores, childcare and sleep.…”

The beat of social cognition: Exploring the role of heart rate variability as marker of mentalizing abilities

“…To ensure that the time period used in the analysis included social activities, we collected information of social functioning levels from all participants using a semi structured interview (Cella et al, 2016). This was done to ascertain that participants would regularly engage with various activities, including socializing, during their everyday life.…”