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This study aims to assess the validity of the Global Functioning: Social and Role scales in measuring functioning during the first episode of schizophrenia.

April 11, 2011Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Using the global functioning social and role scales in a first‐episode sample

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This study aims to assess the validity of the Global Functioning: Social and Role scales in measuring functioning during the first episode of schizophrenia.
Forty-eight stable outpatients with first-episode schizophrenia were assessed using the new social and role scales.
A subsample of thirty-three subjects was evaluated at 6 and 12 months.
Participants completed standardized measures of psychotic symptoms, social functioning, self-esteem, and illness beliefs.
Average ratings were 6 for Global Functioning: Social and 5.5 for Global Functioning: Role with SDs of 1.60 and 2.2, respectively.
Significant correlations were found between social and role scales and subscales on the Social Functioning Scale.
Good social functioning correlated with low positive and negative symptoms and high self-esteem, while role functioning related to personal illness beliefs.

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Randomized trial assesses social and role functioning in first-episode schizophrenia, suggesting stable deficits over time.

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Piškulić et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a75f1b949d3dc94b078655c https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-7893.2011.00263.x

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Using the global functioning social and role scales in a first‐episode sample

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