TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-disorder and disorder-specific deficits in social functioning among schizophrenia and alzheimer’s disease patients
AU - Saris, Ilja M. J.
AU - Aghajani, Moji
AU - Jongs, Niels
AU - Reus, Lianne M.
AU - van der Wee, Nic J. A.
AU - Bilderbeck, Amy C.
AU - van Rossum, Inge Winter
AU - Arango, Celso
AU - de la Torre-Luque, Alejandro
AU - Malik, Asad
AU - Raslescu, Andreea
AU - Dawson, Gerard R.
AU - Ayuso-Mateos, José L.
AU - Kas, Martien J.
AU - Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.
N1 - Funding Information: The project leading to this application has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 115916. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA. This publication reflects only the author’s views and neither the IMI 2JU nor EFPIA nor the European Commission are liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. Publisher Copyright: Copyright: © 2022 Saris et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2022/4/1
Y1 - 2022/4/1
N2 - Background Social functioning is often impaired in schizophrenia (SZ) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, commonalities and differences in social dysfunction among these patient groups remain elusive. Materials and methods Using data from the PRISM study, behavioral (all subscales and total score of the Social Functioning Scale) and affective (perceived social disability and loneliness) indicators of social functioning were measured in patients with SZ (N = 56), probable AD (N = 50) and age-matched healthy controls groups (HC, N = 29 and N = 28). We examined to what extent social functioning differed between disease and age-matched HC groups, as well as between patient groups. Furthermore, we examined how severity of disease and mood were correlated with social functioning, irrespective of diagnosis. Results As compared to HC, both behavioral and affective social functioning seemed impaired in SZ patients (Cohen’s d’s 0.81–1.69), whereas AD patients mainly showed impaired behavioral social function (Cohen’s d’s 0.65–1.14). While behavioral indices of social functioning were similar across patient groups, SZ patients reported more perceived social disability than AD patients (Cohen’s d’s 0.65). Across patient groups, positive mood, lower depression and anxiety levels were strong determinants of better social functioning (p’s <0.001), even more so than severity of disease. Conclusions AD and SZ patients both exhibit poor social functioning in comparison to age- and sex matched HC participants. Social dysfunction in SZ patients may be more severe than in AD patients, though this may be due to underreporting by AD patients. Across patients, social functioning appeared as more influenced by mood states than by severity of disease.
AB - Background Social functioning is often impaired in schizophrenia (SZ) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, commonalities and differences in social dysfunction among these patient groups remain elusive. Materials and methods Using data from the PRISM study, behavioral (all subscales and total score of the Social Functioning Scale) and affective (perceived social disability and loneliness) indicators of social functioning were measured in patients with SZ (N = 56), probable AD (N = 50) and age-matched healthy controls groups (HC, N = 29 and N = 28). We examined to what extent social functioning differed between disease and age-matched HC groups, as well as between patient groups. Furthermore, we examined how severity of disease and mood were correlated with social functioning, irrespective of diagnosis. Results As compared to HC, both behavioral and affective social functioning seemed impaired in SZ patients (Cohen’s d’s 0.81–1.69), whereas AD patients mainly showed impaired behavioral social function (Cohen’s d’s 0.65–1.14). While behavioral indices of social functioning were similar across patient groups, SZ patients reported more perceived social disability than AD patients (Cohen’s d’s 0.65). Across patient groups, positive mood, lower depression and anxiety levels were strong determinants of better social functioning (p’s <0.001), even more so than severity of disease. Conclusions AD and SZ patients both exhibit poor social functioning in comparison to age- and sex matched HC participants. Social dysfunction in SZ patients may be more severe than in AD patients, though this may be due to underreporting by AD patients. Across patients, social functioning appeared as more influenced by mood states than by severity of disease.
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35421108
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263769
DO - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263769
M3 - Article
C2 - 35421108
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 17
JO - PLOS ONE
JF - PLOS ONE
IS - 4 April
M1 - e0263769
ER -