SynthesisPloS one2015
Assessing Social Networks in Patients with Psychotic Disorders: A Systematic Review of Instruments.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The association of social networks and depression in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Social networks and symptomatic and functional outcomes in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018Pooled it
- The Social Support Network of Adults with an Autism Spectrum Condition: An Exploration Using the Network in Action-Questionnaire.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Engagement with services in Black African and Caribbean people with psychosis: The role of social networks, illness perceptions, internalized stigma, and perceived discrimination.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- Social network interventions in mental healthcare: a protocol for an umbrella review.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Social isolation in mental health: a conceptual and methodological review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundEvidence suggests that social networks of patients with psychotic disorders influence symptoms, quality of life and treatment outcomes. It is therefore important to assess social networks for which appropriate and preferably established instruments should be used.
aimsTo identify instruments assessing social networks in studies of patients with psychotic disorders and explore their properties.
methodA systematic search of electronic databases was conducted to identify studies that used a measure of social networks in patients with psychotic disorders.
resultsEight instruments were identified, all of which had been developed before 1991. They have been used in 65 studies (total N of patients = 8,522). They assess one or more aspects of social networks such as their size, structure, dimensionality and quality. Most instruments have various shortcomings, including questionable inter-rater and test-retest reliability.
conclusionsThe assessment of social networks in patients with psychotic disorders is characterized by a variety of approaches which may reflect the complexity of the construct. Further research on social networks in patients with psychotic disorders would benefit from advanced and more precise instruments using comparable definitions of and timescales for social networks across studies.
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