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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-12-27
pubmed:abstractText
The capacity of individuals with schizophrenia to make decisions related to research participation or clinical treatment has received increasing empirical attention. A number of studies have compared patients with schizophrenia to nonpsychiatric comparison subjects (NPCs) on structured measures of decision-making capacity. In this review, we evaluated the magnitude of the difference between schizophrenia and NPC groups reported across these studies, as well as the influence of sample characteristics on observed effect sizes. We also computed the effect sizes of group differences in psychopathology and cognitive deficits. Twelve studies met the search criteria; a majority of them reported data using the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR) or for Treatment (MacCAT-T). The mean effect size (evaluated in terms of Cohen's d) for group differences on the Understanding subscale of the MacCAT instruments was 0.88 (SD = 0.40); it was twice as high among inpatient samples as among outpatients. Similar differences were observed in terms of Appreciation and Reasoning subscales, but the effect sizes for Expression of Choice were small (mean d = 0.29, SD = 0.24). Notably, these observed effect sizes were generally smaller than those for differences between schizophrenia and NPC groups in psychopathology (mean d = 2.06, SD = 1.03) and cognition (mean d = 1.01, SD = 0.61). The published studies demonstrate a substantial heterogeneity in decision-making capacity among people with schizophrenia, as well as among NPCs, suggesting that the presence of schizophrenia does not necessarily mean the patient has impairment in capacity.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0586-7614
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
121-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Magnitude of impairment in decisional capacity in people with schizophrenia compared to normal subjects: an overview.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA. djeste@ucsd.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Review, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural