Neuropsychological and Socio-Occupational Functioning in Young Psychiatric Outpatients: A Longitudinal Investigation

Neuropsychological and Socio-Occupational Functioning in Young Psychiatric Outpatients: A Longitudinal Investigation

BACKGROUND Clinical symptoms and neuropsychological deficits are longitudinally associated with functional outcome in chronic psychiatric cohorts. The current study extended these findings to young and early-course psychiatric outpatients, with the aim of identifying cognitive markers that predict later socio-occupational functioning. METHODS At baseline, 183 young psychiatric outpatients wer...

A Longitudinal Study of Psychomotor Functioning in Acute Psychiatric Patients.

Neuropsychological functioning of inmates referred for psychiatric treatment.

This article describes the Neuropsychological (NP) functioning of 71 psychiatrically hospitalized male prisoners. Demographic description, patterns of drug use, patterns of violence, psychiatric diagnosis, and performance on the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery (HRNB) are described. Using age and education adjusted norms (Heaton, Grant, & Matthews, 1991), 84% of this sample demonstrat...

Relationships between social functioning and quality of life in a population of Dutch adult psychiatric outpatients.

BACKGROUND The relationship between social functioning and QOL in psychiatric patients has not been explicitly investigated before. AIMS To investigate the relationship between social functioning and QOL in a population of psychiatric outpatients (N = 410) with a broad spectrum of psychiatric disorders. METHOD Social functioning was assessed with the Groningen Social Behavior Questionnaire-...

[Dynamics of occupational and relational functioning of outpatients with mental disorders in two-year observation].

OBJECTIVES The aim of the project was to assess changes of occupational and relational functioning within 2 years period of ambulatory treatment of persons suffering from different mental disorders. MATERIAL AND METHOD Outpatients (n = 184) at the age of 18-54 from five diagnostic groups - according to ICD-10: psychotic disorders (F2), affective disorders (F3), anxiety disorders (F4), eating ...