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ArticleInternational journal of methods in psychiatric research2019

Modelling and forecasting Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale scores to achieve remission using time series analysis.

Alka Sabharwal, Gurprit Grover, Sakshi Kaushik, K E Sadanandan Unni

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Article in International journal of methods in psychiatric research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Alka SabharwalDepartment of Statistics, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Gurprit GroverDepartment of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Sakshi KaushikDepartment of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-4219-1488
K E Sadanandan UnniDepartment of Psychiatry & Drug Deaddiction Centre, Lady Hardinge Medical College & Smt. S.K. Hospital, New Delhi, India.
University of Delhi · INLady Hardinge Medical College · IN

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Abstract

objectivesSchizophrenia is a chronic mental condition. The objective of this study is to apply time series modelling to Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale scores of outpatients with schizophrenia, observed at regular intervals of time, and hence forecast the number of visits required to reach remission.

methodsA retrospective data of outpatients diagnosed with chronic paranoid-type schizophrenia were extracted from the records of outpatient department of a tertiary hospital in New Delhi, India. Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and ARIMAX models (ARIMA with explanatory variable as Clinical Global Impression Severity scale) are fitted to the data. The best fit models are employed to forecast the number of visits required to reach remission for the outpatients who did not achieve remission by the end of study. Prediction accuracy of the two models is compared using mean absolute percentage error and mean absolute deviation.

resultsThe ARIMA (1, 2, 1) and ARIMAX (1, 2, 1) models are identified to be suitable models after a series of statistical tests.

conclusionsARIMA and ARIMAX models are suitable to predict number of visits required to reach remission. Further, ARIMAX model performed better than ARIMA model.

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Psychiatric Status Rating ScalesAdultFemaleHumansMaleModels, PsychologicalRemission InductionRetrospective StudiesSchizophreniaSchizophrenic PsychologyTime FactorsARIMAARIMAXforecastingremissionschizophrenia

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PMID30648309
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