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Negative Symptoms and the Course of Social Adjustment in Schizophrenia Toshiyuki Someya 1,2 , Nobuo Anzai 1 , Emi Ikebuchi 1 , Michio Ozawa 1 , Sciichi Harada 1 , Satoshi Ueda 1 , Yukiko Kano 1 , Kazuyuki Nakagome 1 , Akira Iwanami 1 , Naoki Kumagai 1 , Masaru Miyauchi 1 1Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo 2Department of Psychiatry, Shiga University of Medical Science Keyword: Schizophrenia , Negative symptoms , SANS , Social adjustment , Day hospital pp.1229-1236
Published Date 1986/11/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1405204240
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 The purpose of this study was to investigate the longitudinal course of clinical symptoms of schizophrenia, especially of negative symptoms, and their relationship with the course of social adjustment. We studied fortyone young schizophrenic patients, who had been treated in the Day Hospital, Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Tokyo. The patients were followed up for more than five years after the termination of the Day Hospital treatment.

 Negative and positive symptoms were retrospectively assessed, using the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) and the Syndrome Check List (SCL) on the following three occasions, 1) at the time of the admission to the Day Hospital treatment, 2) at the time of the termination of the Day Hospital treatment and 3) five years after the termination of the Day Hospital treatment. Social adjustment was reassessed every year during the five years following the termination of the Day Hospital treatment. The following three items were checked, viz. "relapse", the "rate of employment duration" and the "rate of hospitalization duration".

 The result of statistical analysis revealed that negative symptoms were improved by the Day Hospital treatment, especially by group therapy, and the effect of this therapy remained fairly stable throughout the five years after the termination of the Day Hospital treatment. Negative symptoms, specifically "affective flattening or blunting" and "avolition and apathy", which were assessed by SANS at the termination of the Day Hospital treatment, were found to be effective prognostic signs in schizophrenic patients for predicting later poor social adjustment in terms of "relapse" and the "rate of employment duration". Contrary to the present hypothesis that positive symptoms seem to be invalid in predicting long-term outcomes, positive symptoms, specifically "nuclear syndrome", "residual syndrome", "auditory hallucinations" and "delusions of reference", which were assessed by SCL at the termination of the Day Hospital treatment, were found to be of value for predicting later poor social adjustment in terms of the "relapse" and "rate of employment duration". This finding suggests that long-lasting positive symptoms during the post acute-phase of schizophrenia were also important for assessing the prognosis.


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