Prediction of employability in schizophrenic patients

Solinski, Sylvia; Jackson, Henry; Bell, Richard

doi:10.1016/0920-9964(92)90044-6

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“…Across multiple studies, cognitive impairment has been found to be most consistently related to work outcomes (Bryson et al, 1998;McGurk and Meltzer, 2000;Mueser et al, 2001;Tsang et al, 2000;Solinski et al, 1992;Suslow et al, 2000). Negative symptoms have also been found to be related to work outcome in the majority of studies (Breier et al, 1991;Kay and Murrill, 1990;Mueser et al, 2001;Pogue-Geile and Harrow, 1985).…”

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Cognitive Functioning and Employment in Severe Mental Illness

McGurk

Mueser²

2003

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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This study compared cognitive functioning and symptomatology of unemployed, supported employed, and independently employed clients with severe mental illness. Unemployed clients who wanted to work (N = 21) were compared with clients working in supported employment programs (N = 17) and clients who had been working independently for at least 1 year (N = 23) on a neuropsychological battery and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale. Clients who were unemployed had more severe symptoms and worse cognitive functioning on both positive and negative symptoms, and almost all domains of cognitive functioning. Supported employed clients had more severe psychotic symptoms and worse working memory than independently employed clients, but did not differ in negative symptoms or the other domains of cognitive functioning, including attention/concentration, psychomotor speed, verbal learning and memory, or executive functions. Finally, job complexity was correlated with impaired executive functions among clients working independently, but not in supported employment. Severe symptoms and cognitive impairment may interfere with the ability of some clients with severe mental illness to obtain competitive work. Supported employment programs appear to work by helping clients compensate for problematic symptoms and cognitive impairment and, to a lesser extent, by finding or developing environmental niches in which these impairments do not impede their ability to perform the necessary job tasks.

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Cognitive Functioning and Employment in Severe Mental Illness

McGurk

Mueser²

2003

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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“…Specifically, better developed social skills were associated with less severe negative symptoms and better social functioning. A number of other researchers have also reported strong associations between social competence and negative symptoms (4, [16][17][18]. However, there is at least one study of younger schizophrenia patients in which negative symptoms were not associated with interpersonal skills (19).…”

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Self‐perceived interpersonal competence in older schizophrenia patients: the role of patient characteristics and psychosocial factors

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Patterson

Shaw

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Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…Lack of employment is argued to result largely from cognitive deficits, problems of attention and working memory (Insel, 2010). However, it is worth noting that negative symptoms, which include amotivation, anhedonia and apathy, are associated with social functioning impairments and as such, could also potentially contribute to the unemployment status observed in patients (Hoffmann and Kupper, 1997;Lysaker and Bell, 1995;Solinski et al, 1992;Suslow et al, 2000;Weinberg et al, 2009).…”

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Comprehensive review: Computational modelling of schizophrenia

Valton

Romaniuk

Steele

et al. 2017

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Computational modelling has been used to address: (1) the variety of symptoms observed in schizophrenia using abstract models of behavior (e.g. Bayesian models - top-down descriptive models of psychopathology); (2) the causes of these symptoms using biologically realistic models involving abnormal neuromodulation and/or receptor imbalance (e.g. connectionist and neural networks - bottom-up realistic models of neural processes). These different levels of analysis have been used to answer different questions (i.e. understanding behavioral vs. neurobiological anomalies) about the nature of the disorder. As such, these computational studies have mostly supported diverging hypotheses of schizophrenia's pathophysiology, resulting in a literature that is not always expanding coherently. Some of these hypotheses are however ripe for revision using novel empirical evidence. Here we present a review that first synthesizes the literature of computational modelling for schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms into categories supporting the dopamine, glutamate, GABA, dysconnection and Bayesian inference hypotheses respectively. Secondly, we compare model predictions against the accumulated empirical evidence and finally we identify specific hypotheses that have been left relatively under-investigated.

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Prediction of employability in schizophrenic patients

Cited by 33 publications

References 23 publications

Cognitive Functioning and Employment in Severe Mental Illness

Cognitive Functioning and Employment in Severe Mental Illness

Self‐perceived interpersonal competence in older schizophrenia patients: the role of patient characteristics and psychosocial factors

Comprehensive review: Computational modelling of schizophrenia

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