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Social networks of patients with psychosis: a systematic review.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Transitional discharge interventions for people with schizophrenia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Associations between constructs related to social relationships and mental health conditions and symptoms: an umbrella review.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- The effectiveness of interventions for reducing subjective and objective social isolation among people with mental health problems: a systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Pooled it
- Social networks and symptomatic and functional outcomes in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018Pooled it
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- Experiences of friendships of young people with first-episode psychosis: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Community treatment orders and social outcomes for patients with psychosis: a 48-month follow-up study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Trial
- Social interaction, occupational engagement, and related factors among older mental health service users with severe mental illness - an explorative cross-sectional study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Synergistic pathways to psychosis: understanding developmental risk and resilience factors.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Relationship Between Family Support, C-Reactive Protein and Body Mass Index Among Outpatients with Schizophrenia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Social network reductions are associated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Situational Factors Impacting Harmful Behavior Towards Others Related to Mental Health in the Community and Their Associations: A Scoping Review Based on Systematic Reviews.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Violence victimization and perpetration within the caregiver-patient relationship in schizophrenia: A cross-sectional study in Tunisia.PloS one · 2025Article
- Self-stigma, religiosity, and perceived social support in people with recent-onset psychosis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Associations with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Article
- Polygenic risk for schizophrenia, social dispositions, and pace of epigenetic aging: Results from the Young Finns Study.Aging cell · 2024Article
- A Thematic Analysis Investigating the Inaugural Psychosis REACH Family Ambassador Peer Training Program.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Article
- Introducing community-based mental health support in Serbia: A qualitative study on experiences and needs of long-term psychiatric users.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Psychosocial stress, interpersonal sensitivity, and social withdrawal in clinical high risk for psychosis: a systematic review.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Review
- Mental Health System Responsiveness during COVID-19 in People with Pre-Existing Psychiatric Disorders: Experiences from Iran.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundSocial networks are important for mental health outcomes as they can mobilise resources and help individuals to cope with social stressors. Individuals with psychosis may have specific difficulties in establishing and maintaining social relationships which impacts on their well-being and quality of life. There has been a growing interest in developing social network interventions for patients with psychotic disorders. A systematic literature review was conducted to investigate the size of social networks of patients with psychotic disorders, as well as their friendship networks.
methodsA systematic electronic search was carried out in MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsychINFO databases using a combination of search terms relating to 'social network', 'friendship' and 'psychotic disorder'.
resultsThe search identified 23 relevant papers. Out of them, 20 reported patient social network size. Four papers reported the mean number of friends in addition to whole network size, while three further papers focused exclusively on the number of friends. Findings varied substantially across the studies, with a weighted mean size of 11.7 individuals for whole social networks and 3.4 individuals for friendship networks. On average, 43.1 % of the whole social network was composed of family members, while friends accounted for 26.5 %.
conclusionsStudies assessing whole social network size and friendship networks of people with psychosis are difficult to compare as different concepts and methods of assessment were applied. The extent of the overlap between different social roles assessed in the networks was not always clear. Greater conceptual and methodological clarity is needed in order to help the development of effective strategies to increase social resources of patients with psychosis.
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