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ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2022

Conversational metrics, psychopathological dimensions and self-disturbances in patients with schizophrenia.

Valeria Lucarini, Francesco Cangemi, Benyamin Daniel Daniel, Jacopo Lucchese, Francesca Paraboschi, Chiara Cattani, Carlo Marchesi, Martine Grice, Kai Vogeley, Matteo Tonna

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Article in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Valeria LucariniDepartment of Mental Health, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Parma, Parma, Italy. vlucarini@ausl.pr.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3553-8818
Francesco CangemiIfL-Phonetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Benyamin Daniel DanielDepartment of Mental Health, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Jacopo LucchesePsychiatry Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Francesca ParaboschiDepartment of Mental Health, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Chiara CattaniDepartment of Statistical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Carlo MarchesiDepartment of Mental Health, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Martine GriceIfL-Phonetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Kai VogeleyDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Matteo TonnaDepartment of Mental Health, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Azienda Unita' Sanitaria Locale di Parma · ITUniversity of Parma · ITUniversity of Cologne · DEForschungszentrum Jülich · DEUniversity of Bologna · IT

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB 1252 "Prominence in Language"project A02
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Difficulties in interpersonal communication, including conversational skill impairments, are core features of schizophrenia. However, very few studies have performed conversation analyses in a clinical population of schizophrenia patients. Here we investigate the conversational patterns of dialogues in schizophrenia patients to assess possible associations with symptom dimensions, subjective self-disturbances and social functioning. Thirty-five schizophrenia patients were administered the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), the Clinical Language Disorder Rating Scale (CLANG), the Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication (TLC), the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience Scale (EASE), and the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS). Moreover, participants underwent a recorded semi-structured interview, to extract conversational variables. Conversational data were associated with negative symptoms and social functioning, but not with positive or disorganization symptoms. A significant positive correlation was found between "pause duration" and the EASE item "Spatialization of thought". The present study suggests an association between conversational patterns and negative symptom dimension of schizophrenia. Moreover, our findings evoke a relationship between the natural fluidity of conversation and of the natural unraveling of thoughts.

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SchizophreniaCognitionHumansLanguagePsychiatric Status Rating ScalesPsychopathologySchizophrenic PsychologyConversationPsychopathologySchizophreniaSelf-disturbancesTurn-taking

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