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  1. Article ; Online: Effects of multitask training on cognition and motor control in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

    Chien, Tzu-Yun / Chern, Jen-Suh / Wang, San-Ping / Yang, Yu

    PloS one

    2022  Volume 17, Issue 6, Page(s) e0264745

    Abstract: Schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) is a disabling mental illness that causes considerable deficits in motor and cognitive functions. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of combining traditional multitask training (TMT) and video games- ...

    Abstract Schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) is a disabling mental illness that causes considerable deficits in motor and cognitive functions. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of combining traditional multitask training (TMT) and video games--a new form of multitask training (video game multitask training VGMT)--on cognition and motor control performance in people with SSD. This was a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design study. A total of 25 patients participated in this study voluntarily (13 males and 12 females, average age = 59.61 years, SD- 11.46 years). All participants underwent two stages of training. The first stage involved TMT, and the second stage involved VGMT. Each training stage was 12 weeks long, with sessions twice a week that lasted for 40 minutes. Cognition, upper extremity motor and postural control performance, and functional mobility and subjective balance confidence were measured at three times: before and after the first-stage training and after the second-stage training. The results revealed that TMT and the combination of TMT and VGMT improved SSD patient's cognition, upper extremity motor control, functional mobility and postural control performance. The subjective confidence of balance during the performance of daily activities was also mildly improved. Training with multitasks in the form of video games tended to further improve the outcome measures. Patients with SSD could benefit from regular participation in various forms of multitasking activities. Whether video games training are better than TMT in improving the functional ability of people with SSD needs further investigation. Study protocol registration: Clinicaltrials.gov, ID: NCT04629898. Registered brief title: Level of Immersion of Virtual Reality and Cognition and Motor Performance in Patients of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder.
    MeSH term(s) Aged ; Cognition ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Postural Balance ; Schizophrenia/therapy ; Upper Extremity ; Video Games
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-30
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Clinical Study ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0264745
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  2. Article ; Online: Developing a machine learning-based short form of the positive and negative syndrome scale.

    Lin, Gong-Hong / Liu, Jen-Hsuan / Lee, Shih-Chieh / Wu, Bo-Jian / Li, Shu-Qi / Chiu, Hsien-Jane / Wang, San-Ping / Hsieh, Ching-Lin

    Asian journal of psychiatry

    2024  Volume 94, Page(s) 103965

    Abstract: Background and hypothesis: The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) consists of 30 items and takes up to 50 minutes to administer and score. Therefore, this study aimed to develop and validate a machine learning-based short form of the PANSS ( ... ...

    Abstract Background and hypothesis: The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) consists of 30 items and takes up to 50 minutes to administer and score. Therefore, this study aimed to develop and validate a machine learning-based short form of the PANSS (PANSS-MLSF) that reproduces the PANSS scores. Moreover, the PANSS-MLSF estimated the removed-item scores.
    Study design: The PANSS-MLSF was developed using an artificial neural network, and the removed-item scores were estimated using the eXtreme Gradient Boosting classifier algorithm. The reliability of the PANSS-MLSF was examined using Cronbach's alpha. The concurrent validity was examined by the association (Pearson's r) between the PANSS-MLSF and the PANSS. The convergent validity was examined by the association (Pearson's r) between the PANSS-MLSF and the Clinical Global Impression-Severity, Mini-Mental State Examination, and Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale. The agreement of the estimated removed-item scores with their original scores was examined using Cohen's kappa.
    Study results: Our analysis included data from 573 patients with moderate severity. The two versions of the PANSS-MLSF comprised 15 items and 9 items were proposed. The PANSS-MLSF scores were similar to the PANSS scores (mean squared error=2.6-24.4 points). The reliability, concurrent validity, and convergent validity of the PANSS-MLSF were good. Moderate to good agreement between the estimated removed-item scores and the original item scores was found in 60% of the removed items.
    Conclusion: The PANSS-MLSF offers a viable way to reduce PANSS administration time, maintain score comparability, uphold reliability and validity, and even estimate scores for the removed items.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Activities of Daily Living ; Reproducibility of Results ; Psychometrics
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-12
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2456678-0
    ISSN 1876-2026 ; 1876-2018
    ISSN (online) 1876-2026
    ISSN 1876-2018
    DOI 10.1016/j.ajp.2024.103965
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  3. Article ; Online: Development of a Rasch-calibrated emotion recognition video test for patients with schizophrenia.

    Chen, Kuan-Wei / Lee, Shih-Chieh / Chou, Frank Huang-Chih / Chiang, Hsin-Yu / Hsueh, I-Ping / Chen, Po-Hsi / Wang, San-Ping / Ju, Yu-Jeng / Hsieh, Ching-Lin

    Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists

    2023  

    Abstract: Patients with schizophrenia tend to have deficits in emotion recognition (ER) that affect their social function. However, the commonly-used ER measures appear incomprehensive, unreliable and invalid, making it difficult to comprehensively evaluate ER. ... ...

    Abstract Patients with schizophrenia tend to have deficits in emotion recognition (ER) that affect their social function. However, the commonly-used ER measures appear incomprehensive, unreliable and invalid, making it difficult to comprehensively evaluate ER. The purposes of this study were to develop the Computerized Emotion Recognition Video Test (CERVT) evaluating ER ability in patients with schizophrenia. This study was divided into two phases. First, we selected candidate CERVT items/videos of 8 basic emotion domains from a published database. Second, we validated the selected CERVT items using Rasch analysis. Finally, the 269 patients and 177 healthy adults were recruited to ensure the participants had diverse abilities. After the removal of 21 misfit (infit or outfit mean square > 1.4) items and adjustment of the item difficulties of the 26 items with severe differential item functioning, the remaining 217 items were finalized as the CERVT items. All the CERVT items showed good model fits with small eigenvalues (≤ 2) based on the residual-based principal components analysis for each domain, supporting the unidimensionality of these items. The 8 domains of the CERVT had good to excellent reliabilities (average Rasch reliabilities = 0.84-0.93). The CERVT contains items of the 8 basic emotions with individualized scores. Moreover, the CERVT showed acceptable reliability and validity, and the scores were not affected by examinees' gender. Thus, the CERVT has the potential to provide a comprehensive, reliable, valid, and gender-unbiased assessment of ER for patients with schizophrenia.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 632972-x
    ISSN 1873-5843 ; 0887-6177
    ISSN (online) 1873-5843
    ISSN 0887-6177
    DOI 10.1093/arclin/acad098
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  4. Article ; Online: Symptomatic remission affects employment outcomes in schizophrenia patients.

    Wang, San-Ping / Wang, Jung-Der / Chang, Jer-Hao / Wu, Bo-Jian / Wang, Tso-Jen / Sun, Hsiao-Ju

    BMC psychiatry

    2020  Volume 20, Issue 1, Page(s) 219

    Abstract: Background: Remission criteria were proposed by Andreasen et al. for classifying patients with schizophrenia according to the severity of psychopathology. Up to the present time, there have been no cohort studies exploring the association between ... ...

    Abstract Background: Remission criteria were proposed by Andreasen et al. for classifying patients with schizophrenia according to the severity of psychopathology. Up to the present time, there have been no cohort studies exploring the association between remission status and employment outcomes in patients with schizophrenia. The study explored whether symptomatic remission is significantly associated with employment outcomes in a two-year longitudinal study.
    Methods: All 525 stable patients with schizophrenia in the therapeutic community of a public mental hospital in Taiwan were recruited between 2013 and 2015. Employment outcomes, defined as the cumulative on-the-job duration (months/per year) and income (new Taiwan dollars, NT$/per year), were investigated at the end of 1- and 2-year follow-up periods after enrollment. For repeated measurements, linear mixed models were constructed to examine the association between symptomatic remission and employment outcomes after controlling for potential confounding variables including age, sex, education, type and daily dose of antipsychotics, cognitive function, psychosocial functioning and initial employment type.
    Results: The average age of patients was 51.8 years, and 65.3% were males. Among them, 124 patients (23.6%, 124/525) met the remission criteria at baseline. The linear mixed-model analysis showed that patients who had symptomatic remission were employed 0.8 of a month longer (p = 0.029) and earned NT$3250 more (p = 0.001) within 1 year than those who did not show symptomatic remission.
    Conclusion: Our study suggests that assessing symptomatic remission is a useful part of monitoring treatment effectiveness for schizophrenia, and all strategies targeting the bio-psycho-social domains to attain symptomatic remission are paramount to maintaining favorable employment outcomes.
    MeSH term(s) Employment ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Humans ; Longitudinal Studies ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ; Remission Induction ; Schizophrenia/drug therapy ; Schizophrenic Psychology ; Taiwan ; Treatment Outcome
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-12
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 1471-244X
    ISSN (online) 1471-244X
    DOI 10.1186/s12888-020-02630-z
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  5. Article ; Online: Frailty affects employment outcomes in patients with schizophrenia in noncompetitive employment: A 4-year longitudinal study.

    Wang, San-Ping / Wang, Jung-Der / Chang, Jer-Hao / Wu, Bo-Jian / Chern, Jen-Suh / Wang, Tso-Jen

    Schizophrenia research

    2020  Volume 222, Page(s) 375–381

    Abstract: Objectives: Employment status is considered a crucial predictor of improved functioning for patients with psychotic disorders. Frailty affects not only physical well-being but also employment outcomes, but few studies have explored the association ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: Employment status is considered a crucial predictor of improved functioning for patients with psychotic disorders. Frailty affects not only physical well-being but also employment outcomes, but few studies have explored the association between frailty and employment outcomes in patients with schizophrenia. This study is a longitudinal follow-up study that aimed to determine whether frailty is associated with employment outcomes in schizophrenia.
    Methods: All 561 stable patients with schizophrenia in a therapeutic community in Taiwan were recruited. Employment outcomes, defined as the cumulative annual work duration (months per year) and income (USD per year), were investigated repeatedly at the end of 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-year follow-ups after enrollment. Generalized estimating equation models were constructed to determine the association between frailty and employment outcomes after controlling for variables, including age, sex, education, antipsychotic medication and daily dose, cognitive function, instrumental activities of daily living, medical comorbidity, and initial employment state at the beginning year.
    Results: The average age was 53.78 years, and 64.7% were men. Among them, 57 patients (10.2%) met the frailty criteria at the baseline. After controlling for other factors, we found that patients with frailty were employed 1.01 month less (p = 0.004) and earned 17.2 USD less (p = 0.029) per year than those without frailty.
    Conclusions: Frailty may reduce duration of employment and income for patients with schizophrenia. The biopsychosocial care model for these patients should include development of strategies to prevent or reverse preexisting frailty to improve and preserve employment outcomes.
    MeSH term(s) Activities of Daily Living ; Employment ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Frailty ; Humans ; Longitudinal Studies ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Schizophrenia/complications ; Schizophrenia/drug therapy ; Schizophrenia/epidemiology ; Taiwan/epidemiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-10
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 639422-x
    ISSN 1573-2509 ; 0920-9964
    ISSN (online) 1573-2509
    ISSN 0920-9964
    DOI 10.1016/j.schres.2020.04.026
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  6. Article ; Online: Interference of Visual Conditions and Stance Postures on Center of Pressure Sway in Patients with Schizophrenia with History of Fall.

    Chern, Jen-Suh / Wang, San-Ping / Chang, Jer-Hao / Yu, Sung-Nein / Lin, Yu-Zhe

    Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

    2018  Volume 2018, Page(s) 2329–2332

    Abstract: This study examines the interaction effects among incidences of falls, visual conditions, and stance postures on the magnitude of center of pressure sway (MCOPS) in patients with schizophrenia. The coordinates of COP in ten postural control demands were ... ...

    Abstract This study examines the interaction effects among incidences of falls, visual conditions, and stance postures on the magnitude of center of pressure sway (MCOPS) in patients with schizophrenia. The coordinates of COP in ten postural control demands were measured in subjects with at least one or without any falls in the previous year. MCOPS was calculated by the default program in Balance 3.78 software. Cognitive functions were also measured. The findings include: (1) the MCOPS increased as the postural control demands increase in subjects who have fallen; (2) MCOPS in subjects without falls was the largest for the lowest postural control demands; (3) MCOPS increased when the eyes were closed in subjects without a history of falls but decreased in subjects with a history of falls; (4) cognition function in subjects who have fallen was inferior to that in those without falls. The interference visual condition and stance postures on MCOPS tended to be different in schizophrenia with or without incidences of falls indicating the possible association between psychomotor dysfunction and falls in the subjects.
    MeSH term(s) Accidental Falls ; Cognition ; Humans ; Postural Balance ; Posture ; Schizophrenia/physiopathology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-09-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 2694-0604
    ISSN (online) 2694-0604
    DOI 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512870
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