Michelle Richardson1, Christina Katsakou, Stefan Priebe. 1. Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. m.richardson@qmul.ac.uk
Abstract
PURPOSE: Previous research has shown a link between treatment satisfaction and global psychopathology in different groups of psychiatric patients. However, neither the relationship between treatment satisfaction and the sub-syndromes of global psychopathology nor their temporal ordering have been explored. METHODS: Participants admitted involuntarily to psychiatric wards in the UK and diagnosed with psychotic disorders (N = 232) were included. Treatment satisfaction and psychopathological sub-syndromes (i.e., manic excitement, anxiety-depression, negative symptoms, positive symptoms) were measured within 1 week and at 1 month after admission. RESULTS: Repeated measures ANOVAs showed that higher treatment satisfaction is associated with lower scores on the manic excitement, anxiety-depression and positive symptom sub-syndromes, while no significant association was found for negative symptoms. However, cross-lagged panel analyses showed that treatment satisfaction predicted change only in positive symptoms while none of the paths from the relevant sub-syndromes to treatment satisfaction was significant. CONCLUSION: Treatment satisfaction can be regarded as an antecedent of changes in positive symptoms only. These results underline the importance of examining psychopathological sub-syndromes separately as they may relate differentially to other important correlates of psychoses.
PURPOSE: Previous research has shown a link between treatment satisfaction and global psychopathology in different groups of psychiatricpatients. However, neither the relationship between treatment satisfaction and the sub-syndromes of global psychopathology nor their temporal ordering have been explored. METHODS:Participants admitted involuntarily to psychiatric wards in the UK and diagnosed with psychotic disorders (N = 232) were included. Treatment satisfaction and psychopathological sub-syndromes (i.e., manic excitement, anxiety-depression, negative symptoms, positive symptoms) were measured within 1 week and at 1 month after admission. RESULTS: Repeated measures ANOVAs showed that higher treatment satisfaction is associated with lower scores on the manic excitement, anxiety-depression and positive symptom sub-syndromes, while no significant association was found for negative symptoms. However, cross-lagged panel analyses showed that treatment satisfaction predicted change only in positive symptoms while none of the paths from the relevant sub-syndromes to treatment satisfaction was significant. CONCLUSION: Treatment satisfaction can be regarded as an antecedent of changes in positive symptoms only. These results underline the importance of examining psychopathological sub-syndromes separately as they may relate differentially to other important correlates of psychoses.
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