Abstract

Introduction

Cognitive deficits are common, clinically relevant and closely linked to poor functional outcomes in everyday functioning in patients with schizophrenia and other psychoses.

Objectives

To ascertain to which extent a polydiagnostic assessment of schizophrenia is associated with clinically-derived criteria of cognitive impairment and gold-standard neuropsychological assessment.

Methods

We assessed 98 patients with a psychotic disorder. We tested if patients met criteria for schizophrenia according to five diagnostic classifications: Krapelin, Bleuler, Schneider, ICD-10 and DSM-IV. Also, we applied a set of clinically-derived criteria to assess cognitive impairment associated with psychosis (CIAPs). Gold-standard neuropsychological assessment was administered, covering the cognitive domains included in the MATRICS Cognitive Battery: attention, processing speed, verbal memory, visual memory, working memory, executive function and social cognition. MANOVAs were performed to test the association between polydiagnostic and clinically-derived criteria and neuropsychological assessment.

Results

MANOVA profile analyses revealed that patients who met CIAPs criteria showed cognitive impairment in all the cognitive domains except for social cognition. Patients diagnosed with Kraepelin’s criteria showed significant differences in processing speed, visual memory, working memory and GCI. Patients fulfilling Bleuler and DSM-IV criteria showed significant deficits in processing speed and verbal memory, respectively. Schneider and ICD-10 diagnostic criteria did not reveal differences in cognition between patients who fulfilled these criteria.

Conclusions

CIAPs criteria were the most accurate classifying patients with cognitive impairment, followed by Kraepelin’s criteria, which were the ones among diagnostic criteria which better differentiated patients regarding cognitive impairment. These criteria take into consideration the outcome in addition to symptoms.

Disclosure

This work was supported by the Government of Navarra (grants 17/31, 18/41, 87/2014) and the Carlos III Health Institute (FEDER Funds) from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (14/01621 and 16/02148). Both had no further role in the study des

Details

Title
A polydiagnostic approach to cognitive deficits in schizophrenia
Author
Sánchez-Torres, A 1 ; Gil-Berrozpe, G 1 ; Lorente-Omeñaca, R 1 ; Zandio, M 2 ; Moreno-Izco, L 2 ; García De Jalón, E 1 ; Ribeiro, M 1 ; Peralta, V 3 ; Cuesta, M 2 

 Mental Health Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra (IdISNA), Pamplona, Spain 
 Mental Health Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra (IdISNA), Pamplona, Spain; Psychiatry, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 
 Mental Health Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra (IdISNA), Pamplona, Spain; Mental Health Department, Servicio Navarro de Salud-Osasunbidea, Pamplona, Spain 
Pages
S161-S162
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Apr 2021
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISSN
09249338
e-ISSN
17783585
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2560873786
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Psychiatric Association. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.