TY - JOUR
T1 - Disturbances of the Basic Self and Prodromal Symptoms Among Young Adolescents From the Community
T2 - A Pilot Population-Based Study
AU - Koren, Danny
AU - Lacoua, Liza
AU - Rothschild-Yakar, Lily
AU - Parnas, Josef
N1 - © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: [email protected].
PY - 2016/9
Y1 - 2016/9
N2 - Background and Goal: Recent findings have provided preliminary support for the notion that basic self-disturbances (SD) are related to prodromal symptoms among nonpsychotic help-seeking adolescents. As a sizable proportion of adolescents who are at risk do not seek help, this study attempts to assess the extent to which these findings can be generalized to the entire population of adolescents who are at risk for psychosis. Method: The concurrent relationship between SD and prodromal symptoms was explored in a sample of 100 non-help-seeking adolescents (age 13–15) from the community. SD were assessed with the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE); prodromal symptoms and syndromes were assessed with the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes (SIPS); psychosocial functioning was assessed with the “Social and Role Global Functioning Scales”; and level of distress with the Mood and Anxiety States Questionnaire (MASQ). Results: SD significantly correlated with sub-clinical psychotic symptoms (r = .70, P < .0001). This correlation was significantly stronger than those of SD with mood symptoms and social functioning. Finally, SD was the single best concurrent predictor of prodromal symptoms and syndromes. Conclusions: These results provide preliminary support for the generalizability of the association between SD and prodromal symptoms for the entire population of adolescents who are clinically at high risk for psychosis. In addition, they further support the notion that this association is both specific and unique.
AB - Background and Goal: Recent findings have provided preliminary support for the notion that basic self-disturbances (SD) are related to prodromal symptoms among nonpsychotic help-seeking adolescents. As a sizable proportion of adolescents who are at risk do not seek help, this study attempts to assess the extent to which these findings can be generalized to the entire population of adolescents who are at risk for psychosis. Method: The concurrent relationship between SD and prodromal symptoms was explored in a sample of 100 non-help-seeking adolescents (age 13–15) from the community. SD were assessed with the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE); prodromal symptoms and syndromes were assessed with the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes (SIPS); psychosocial functioning was assessed with the “Social and Role Global Functioning Scales”; and level of distress with the Mood and Anxiety States Questionnaire (MASQ). Results: SD significantly correlated with sub-clinical psychotic symptoms (r = .70, P < .0001). This correlation was significantly stronger than those of SD with mood symptoms and social functioning. Finally, SD was the single best concurrent predictor of prodromal symptoms and syndromes. Conclusions: These results provide preliminary support for the generalizability of the association between SD and prodromal symptoms for the entire population of adolescents who are clinically at high risk for psychosis. In addition, they further support the notion that this association is both specific and unique.
KW - Journal Article
U2 - 10.1093/schbul/sbw010
DO - 10.1093/schbul/sbw010
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26994115
SN - 0586-7614
VL - 42
SP - 1216
EP - 1224
JO - Schizophrenia Bulletin
JF - Schizophrenia Bulletin
IS - 5
ER -