Abstract
Relationship between cognitive status and adaptive life skills in a group of elderly persons with schizophrenia
International Psychogeriatrics, Vol.15(Supplement 2), p.164
08/2003
Abstract
Objective: The objective of the present study is to examine the relationship between cognitive status and adaptive life skills in a group of elderly persons with schizophrenia. Over twenty years ago, Serban & Gidynski (1979) concluded that deficits in adaptive life functioning comprised the major negative outcome for this population. Harvey et al., (1997) developed the Social Adaptive Functioning Evaluation (SAFE) scale to evaluate overall adaptive dysfunction and found that elderly persons with schizophrenia had adaptation scores that were strongly associated with severity of cognitive impairment and that cognitive function was more important than psychiatric symptoms in predicting adaptive function. Other researchers have found that memory and attention are the most important cognitive domains related to adaptive living skills in subjects with schizophrenia. The objective of the present study builds upon the findings of Harvey et al., by evaluating specific cognitive domains and examining their relationship to levels of adaptive life skills.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Relationship between cognitive status and adaptive life skills in a group of elderly persons with schizophrenia
- Creators
- Kathleen E SherrellRita BodeKathleen Buckwalter - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- International Psychogeriatrics, Vol.15(Supplement 2), p.164
- ISSN
- 1041-6102
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2003
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9983557611802771
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