Maryam Derakhshan-Nejad; Imanollah Bigdeli; Sa’eed A’zami; Shahrokh Makvand Hosseini
Volume 4, Issue 16 , December 2014, , Pages 36-48
Abstract
Deficiency in facial emotion recognition is among the mainproblems schizophrenia patients are facing. However, there is littleinformation about this deficit in subtypes ...
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Deficiency in facial emotion recognition is among the mainproblems schizophrenia patients are facing. However, there is littleinformation about this deficit in subtypes of schizophrenia. Thepresent study aims to compare the facial emotion recognition in thethree subgroups of schizophrenia (i.e. paranoid, disorganized, andresidual), and to study its relationship with positive and negativesymptoms. The research was descriptive with a causal-comparativedesign. Using convenience sampling and based on psychiatricdiagnosis, clinical interview, and inclusion- exclusion criteria, 60subjects were selected from among schizophrenia patients at Razihospital in Tehran (including 19 paranoid patients, 21 disorganizedpatients, 20 residual patients). The research instruments were facialemotion recognition test and clinical symptom scale (PANSS). Thedata was analyzed by one-way ANOVA, post hoc tests, and non-linearcorrelation test. The results showed that disorganized patients hadmore impairment in the facial emotion recognition compared to othersubtypes of schizophrenia. Subsequently, paranoid and residualpatients showed major impairment, respectively. Moreover, there wasa significant relationship between deficit in emotion recognition andnegative symptoms in the patients. Altogether, the intensity of deficitin facial emotion recognition is different among different subtypes ofschizophrenia.
