Temporal persistence of anomalous self-experience: A 5 years follow-up

TY - JOUR

T1 - Temporal persistence of anomalous self-experience

T2 - A 5 years follow-up

AU - Nordgaard, J

AU - Handest, P

AU - Vollmer-Larsen, A

AU - Sæbye, D

AU - Pedersen, J Thejlade

AU - Parnas, J

N1 - Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

PY - 2017/1/1

Y1 - 2017/1/1

N2 - BACKGROUND: The concept of self-disorders in schizophrenia has gained substantial interest and it has now been established empirically that self-disorders aggregate in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders but not in other mental disorders or in healthy controls. Yet, the issue of temporal persistence has not been addressed.AIM: The aim of this study is to examine the temporal persistence of self-disorders.METHODS: 96 first admission patients were thoroughly assessed for psychopathology including SD at baseline and again 5years later. We created a 25-item self-disorder scale which was used both at baseline and follow-up to assess self-disorders. The scale was a pre-cursor of the later published EASE-scale. Additionally, we examined the development of positive and negative syndromes and of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF).RESULTS: There was a high correlation between self-disorders at baseline and at follow-up, and the majority of the items in self-disorders scale showed equal proportions between baseline and follow-up.CONCLUSION: Self-disturbances showed a high level of persistence at 5-year follow-up.

AB - BACKGROUND: The concept of self-disorders in schizophrenia has gained substantial interest and it has now been established empirically that self-disorders aggregate in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders but not in other mental disorders or in healthy controls. Yet, the issue of temporal persistence has not been addressed.AIM: The aim of this study is to examine the temporal persistence of self-disorders.METHODS: 96 first admission patients were thoroughly assessed for psychopathology including SD at baseline and again 5years later. We created a 25-item self-disorder scale which was used both at baseline and follow-up to assess self-disorders. The scale was a pre-cursor of the later published EASE-scale. Additionally, we examined the development of positive and negative syndromes and of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF).RESULTS: There was a high correlation between self-disorders at baseline and at follow-up, and the majority of the items in self-disorders scale showed equal proportions between baseline and follow-up.CONCLUSION: Self-disturbances showed a high level of persistence at 5-year follow-up.

KW - Journal Article

U2 - 10.1016/j.schres.2016.10.001

DO - 10.1016/j.schres.2016.10.001

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 27720316

SN - 0920-9964

VL - 179

SP - 36

EP - 40

JO - Schizophrenia Research

JF - Schizophrenia Research

ER -