ArticleSchizophrenia research2020
Factor structure of cognitive performance and functional capacity in schizophrenia: Evidence for differences across functional capacity measures.
Article in Schizophrenia research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Exploring the Relationship between Cognitive Performance, Performance-Based Functioning, and Everyday Functioning in People with Schizophrenia: a Systematic Literature Review.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Pooled it
- Validation of the virtual reality functional capacity assessment tool (VRFCAT) in a Spanish sample of individuals with psychosis and healthy controls.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Migration of digital functional capacity assessments from device resident to cloud-based delivery: Development and convergent validity.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Article
- Location-based differences in cognition and functional capacity: Consistent levels of impairment in participants with schizophrenia compared to healthy controls.Psychiatry research · 2024Article
- The Ethiopian Cognitive Assessment battery in Schizophrenia (ECAS): a validation study.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 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
- A Patient-Clinician Discussion of Current Challenges in Schizophrenia Part 1: Addressing Daily Functioning and Cognitive Impairments Associated with Schizophrenia [Podcast].Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2023Article
- Dispersion of cognitive performance test scores on the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery: A different perspective.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2022Article
- Computer-based virtual reality assessment of functional capacity in primary psychosis.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2022Article
- Remote self-administration of digital cognitive tests using the Brief Assessment of Cognition: Feasibility, reliability, and sensitivity to subjective cognitive decline.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) #572: A Study of Serious Mental Illness in Veterans as a Pathway to personalized medicine in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Illness.Personalized medicine in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The Computerized Functional Skills Assessment and Training Program: Sensitivity to Global Cognitive Impairment, Correlations With Cognitive Abilities, and Factor Structure.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundCognition and functional capacity predict functional outcomes in mental illness. Traditional approaches conceptualize cognition as comprised of domains, but many studies support a unifactorial structure. Some functional capacity measures may share a single-factor structure with cognition. In this study, we examined the factor structure of two measures of functional capacity, a conventional assessment and a newer computerized assessment, testing for a shared factor structure with cognition.
methodsPatients with schizophrenia and healthy controls were examined with the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB), the UCSD Performance Based Skills Assessment (UPSA), and the Virtual Reality Functional Capacity Assessment Tool (VRFCAT). Models of the factor structures of the MCCB, UPSA, and VRFCAT were calculated, as were correlations between MCCB scores and individual VRFCAT objectives.
resultsThe MCCB, VRFCAT, and UPSA all had unifactorial structures. The best fitting model of the correlations between MCCB and UPSA was a shared single factor, while the best fit for the relationship between MCCB and VRFCAT had two factors. Correlations between the MCCB domain and composite scores and the VRFCAT objectives suggested global rather than specific patterns of correlation. DISCUSSION: The relationship between cognitive performance and functional capacity was found to vary across functional capacity assessments. The UPSA and MCCB were not differentiated into separate factors, suggesting that the UPSA may overlap with neurocognitive performance. However, the VRFCAT appears to measure functional abilities that are separable from, yet correlated with, neurocognitive performance. It may provide a more distinctive assessment of the functional capacity construct.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.