Article
Factor structures of the neurocognitive assessments and familial analysis in first-episode schizophrenia patients, their relatives and controls.
The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry - 1 Feb 2010
Wang Qiang, Vassos Evangelos, Deng Wei, Ma Xiaohong, Hu Xun, Murray Robin M, Collier David A, Li Tao
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Schizophrenia patients have a wide range of cognitive deficits. To explore the structure of these deficits and index their psychometric properties in order to define the major separable factors, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed on a series of neuropsychological test results in a sample of Han Chinese first-episode schizophrenia patients, their relatives and controls without mental...
Topics
- Adult
- Attention
- China
- Cognition Disorders
- Executive Function
- Factor Analysis, Statistical
- Family
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Memory
- Middle Aged
- Neuropsychological Tests