ArticlePsychiatry research2019
Virtual reality assessment of functional capacity in people with Schizophrenia: Associations with reduced emotional experience and prediction of functional outcomes.
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- A systematic review of performance-based functional capacity measures for use in Huntington's disease and evaluation of their suitability for clinical trials.Journal of Huntington's disease · 2025Pooled it
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- Assessment of cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia based on virtual reality serious games: a prospective nonrandomized clinical trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Current limitations in technology-based cognitive assessment for severe mental illnesses: a focus on feasibility, reliability, and ecological validity.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Thinking About the Future of Cognitive Remediation Therapy Revisited: What Is Left to Solve Before Patients Have Access?Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Article
- Utilizing Technology to Enhance the Ecological Validity of Cognitive and Functional Assessments in Schizophrenia: An Overview of the State-of-the-Art.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2024Article
- Qualitative Analysis of the Content Validity of the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool (VRFCAT) in Schizophrenia: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2023Article
- Cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: An expert group paper on the current state of the art.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2022Review
- The relationship between cognition and functioning in schizophrenia: A semi-systematic review.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2022Review
- Factor structure of cognitive performance and functional capacity in schizophrenia: Evidence for differences across functional capacity measures.Schizophrenia research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Virtual Reality (VR) approaches have had considerable success in measurement of functional capacity. However, it is not clear if factors other than cognitive impairment influence performance on VR measures. Many people with schizophrenia have significant negative symptoms and they could reduce engagement in assessment. 158 patients with schizophrenia performed the VRFCAT, were tested with the MCCB, were rated with the PANSS, and were rated on everyday functioning. Scores for reduced emotional experience and reduced expression were derived. Reduced emotional experience, but not reduced expression, was correlated with socially relevant VRFCAT subtasks and real-world social functioning. Performance on the socially relevant subtasks, but not the solitary subtasks, shared variance with work outcomes. MCCB performance was associated with both subdomains, but socially relevant subtasks shared more variance. Patients with higher reduced emotional experience validly engaged in socially relevant VR simulations, as indexed by correlations with outcome measures. These patients had poorer performance on socially relevant tasks than on solitary tasks. The differential validity of solitary vs. socially relevant simulations was supported by differences in correlates, suggesting that assessments with a focus on performance of simulated socially relevant tasks could be developed.
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