ORBi: Laloyaux Julien - A new way of predicting everyday life functioning: Validation of a Computerized Meeting Preparation Task with persons diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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	Document type :	Scientific congresses and symposiums : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Treatment & clinical psychology
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/129211

Title :	A new way of predicting everyday life functioning: Validation of a Computerized Meeting Preparation Task with persons diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Laloyaux, Julien [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale >]
	Levaux, Marie-Noëlle [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychopathologie cognitive >]
	Mourad, Haitham [Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège > > > >]
	Bertrand, Hervé [Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège > > > >]
	Domken, Marc-André [Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège > > > >]
	Van der Linden, Martial [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychopathologie cognitive >]
	Laroi, Frank [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale >]
Publication date :	2012
Main document title :	Abstract Book of the BAPS-SEPEX
Pages :	165
Event name :	BAPS-SEPEX meeting
Event date :	May 10 and 11, 2012
Event organizer :	University of Liège
Event place (city) :	Liège
Event country :	Belgium
Keywords :	[en] Computerized ; Daily living activities ; Schizophrenia
Abstract :	[en] Deficits in everyday life functioning are a core feature of persons diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, functional outcome is usually evaluated with questionnaires and performance-based assessments, all of which contain a number of limits. We developed a computerized real-life activity task (meeting preparation task) where participants are required to prepare a meeting room. Twenty-one individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and 21 matched healthy controls completed the task. Patients were also evaluated with a cognitive battery and measures of symptomatology and functional outcome. Results showed that performance on the computerized task significantly differentiated patients and controls for a certain number of variables. These variables, combined into a composite score, were significantly correlated with both cognitive functioning and functional outcome. Moreover, this composite score significantly predicted 39% of functional outcome, whereas a cognitive composite score did not reach significance. In addition, when the meeting task composite score was combined with symptomatology and the cognitive composite score, these measures significantly predicted 70% of functional outcome. These findings suggest that the meeting preparation task provides a valid and significant indication of the level of everyday life functioning in patients with schizophrenia, and may be viewed as a valuable instrument in both an evaluation and remediation context.
Funders :	This work was supported in part by a grant from Janssen-Cilag Belgium
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