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9395932

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-1-12
pubmed:abstractText
Severe cognitive impairment has been reported in large numbers of geriatric chronic schizophrenic patients in the US, with this impairment also being related to severe negative symptoms and adaptive deficits. It is not clear if this impairment is related to the particular environment of the American state hospitals and would not generalize to other countries. In this study, a sample composed of geriatric (age > 70) chronic schizophrenic patients in London, who were assessed by the Team for Assessment of Psychiatric Services (TAPS) (N = 137), and a group of geriatric chronic schizophrenic patients in a New York psychiatric center (N = 86) were compared for the severity of cognitive impairment and on measures of adaptive functioning. Patients received essentially identical Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores, but differed on 3/4 measures of adaptive functioning. The correlations among all four aspects of adaptive deficit and MMSE scores were very similar in the two samples, suggesting that cognitive deficits and their relationship with adaptive impairments are relatively invariant across different psychiatric systems of care, while adaptive functioning deficits are more variable and possibly more influenced by environmental factors. These data add to previous results suggesting that cognitive impairment is a common feature in poor outcome geriatric patients with schizophrenia.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0885-6230
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1001-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Cognitive impairment in geriatric chronic schizophrenic patients: a cross-national study in New York and London.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. PDHarvey@compuserve.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.