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Caregivers' perception of patients' cognitive deficit in schizophrenia ă and its influence on their quality of life

Alejandra Caqueo-Urizar
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Alfonso Urzua
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Purpose: The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between ă the caregivers' perception of patients' cognitive deficits (i.e., ă neurocognition and social cognition) and their quality of life (QoL), ă after adjusting on clinicians' assessment of neurocognitive deficits and ă sociodemographic confounding factors. Methods: The study included 253 ă patients with schizophrenia and their caregivers from public mental ă health clinics in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The caregivers' perception ă of patients' neurocognitive and social cognitive deficits was assessed ă using the the GEOPTE scale, caregivers' QoL was assessed using the ă schizophrenia caregiver quality of life questionnaire (S-CGQoL) and ă clinicians' ratings of patients' neurocognitive deficits was based on ă the cognitive factor of the positive and negative syndrome scale for ă schizophrenia (PANSS). Results: The degree of agreement between ă caregivers' perception and health care professionals' assessment of ă cognitive deficit of patients with schizophrenia was moderate. ă Caregivers' perceptions of neurocognitive and social cognitive deficits ă were significantly associated with their QoL, contrary to clinicians' ă assessment. Conclusions: Caregivers' perception of patients' cognitive ă deficit was significantly associated with their QoL. The caregivers' ă perception regarding patients' neurocognition and social cognition may ă enrich the knowledge of clinicians on patients and is important to be ă considered by clinicians to improve caregiver's QoL.
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hal-01482535 , version 1 (03-03-2017)

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Alejandra Caqueo-Urizar, Alfonso Urzua, Laurent Boyer. Caregivers' perception of patients' cognitive deficit in schizophrenia ă and its influence on their quality of life. PSICOTHEMA, 2016, 28 (2), pp.150-155. ⟨10.7334/psicothema2015.120⟩. ⟨hal-01482535⟩

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