1. Self-assessment of social cognition in a sample of Lebanese in-patients with schizophrenia
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Haddad, Chadia, Salameh, Pascale, Hallit, Souheil, Sacre, Hala, Clément, Jean-Pierre, Calvet, Benjamin, Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale (NET), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-CHU Limoges-Institut Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Institut National de Santé Publique, Epidémiologie Clinique et Toxicologie [Beyrouth, Liban] (INSPECT-LB), Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross [Jal Eddib, Liban], Pôle Universitaire d’Addictologie en Limousin, CH Esquirol [Limoges] (CH Esquirol), Lebanese University Faculty of Pharmacy, Hadath, Lebanon, Institut National de Santé Publique, Epidémiologie Clinique et Toxicologie - Liban (INSPECT-LB), Beirut-Lebanon, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus., and Grelier, Elisabeth
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Objective The primary objective was to evaluate social cognitive complaints in a sample of chronic in-patients with schizophrenia and compare it to healthy controls. The secondary objective was to explore factors related to social cognitive complaints in these patients, such as neurocognition, clinical symptoms, depression, and insight. Methods A cross-sectional study conducted between July 2019 and March 2020 at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross (HPC)-Lebanon enrolled 120 chronic in-patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders and 60 healthy controls. The Self-Assessment of Social Cognition Impairments (ACSo) scale was used to assess social cognitive complaints. Results A significant difference was found between schizophrenia patients and healthy controls in all social cognitive complaints: theory of mind complaint, attributional biases complaint, emotional processes complaint, and social perception and knowledge complaint (p, Highlights • Individuals with schizophrenia often have impairments in social cognition • Despite low insight, patients report difficulties in their social cognitive skills. • A correlation exists between neurocognition and subjective social cognition in schizophrenia • Clinical symptoms (positive and negative symptoms) were not associated with social cognitive complaints • Social cognitive complaints might help in cognitive remediation and therapy
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- 2021
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