Authors
Silvana Galderisi, Alessandro Rossi, Paola Rocca, Alessandro Bertolino, Armida Mucci, Paola Bucci, Paola Rucci, Dino Gibertoni, Eugenio Aguglia, Mario Amore, Antonello Bellomo, Massimo Biondi, Roberto Brugnoli, Liliana Dell'Osso, Diana De Ronchi, Gabriella Di Emidio, Massimo Di Giannantonio, Andrea Fagiolini, Carlo Marchesi, Palmiero Monteleone, Lucio Oldani, Federica Pinna, Rita Roncone, Emilio Sacchetti, Paolo Santonastaso, Alberto Siracusano, Antonio Vita, Patrizia Zeppegno, Mario Maj, Italian Network For Research on Psychoses, Marcello Chieffi, Stefania De Simone, Francesco De Riso, Rosa Giugliano, Giuseppe Piegari, Annarita Vignapiano, Grazia Caforio, Marina Mancini, Lucia Colagiorgio, Stefano Porcelli, Raffaele Salfi, Oriana Bianchini, Alessandro Galluzzo, Stefano Barlati, Bernardo Carpiniello, Francesca Fatteri, Silvia Lostia di Santa Sofia, Dario Cannavò, Giuseppe Minutolo, Maria Signorelli, Giovanni Martinotti, Giuseppe Di Iorio, Tiziano Acciavatti, Stefano Pallanti, Carlo Faravelli, Mario Altamura, Eleonora Stella, Daniele Marasco, Pietro Calcagno, Matteo Respino, Valentina Marozzi, Ilaria Riccardi, Alberto Collazzoni, Paolo Stratta, Laura Giusti, Donatella Ussorio, Ida Delauretis, Marta Serati, Alice Caldiroli, Carlotta Palazzo, Felice Iasevoli, Carla Gramaglia, SabrinaGili, Eleonora Gattoni, Elena Tenconi, Valeria Giannunzio, Francesco Monaco, Chiara De Panfilis, Annalisa Camerlengo, Paolo Ossola, Paola Landi, Grazia Rutigliano, Irene Pergentini, Mauro Mauri, Fabio Di Fabio, Chiara Torti, Antonino Buzzanca, Anna Comparelli, Antonella De Carolis, Valentina Corigliano, Giorgio Di Lorenzo, Cinzia Niolu, Alfonso Troisi, Giulio Corrivetti, Gaetano Pinto, Ferdinando Diasco, Arianna Goracci, Simone Bolognesi, Elisa Borghini, Cristiana Montemagni, Tiziana Frieri, Nadia Birindelli
Publication date
2014/10
Journal
World Psychiatry
Volume
13
Issue
3
Pages
275-287
Description
In people suffering from schizophrenia, major areas of everyday life are impaired, including independent living, productive activities and social relationships. Enhanced understanding of factors that hinder real‐life functioning is vital for treatments to translate into more positive outcomes. The goal of the present study was to identify predictors of real‐life functioning in people with schizophrenia, and to assess their relative contribution. Based on previous literature and clinical experience, several factors were selected and grouped into three categories: illness‐related variables, personal resources and context‐related factors. Some of these variables were never investigated before in relationship with real‐life functioning. In 921 patients with schizophrenia living in the community, we found that variables relevant to the disease, personal resources and social context explain 53.8% of real‐life functioning variance in a …
Scholar articles
S Galderisi, A Rossi, P Rocca, A Bertolino, A Mucci… - World Psychiatry, 2014