Sentences with phrase «positive psychotic symptoms»

Many patients continue to experience persistent positive psychotic symptoms, hallucinations, and delusions, which are disabling and distressing.

The following hypotheses were tested: that the cognitive behaviour therapy would be superior to supportive counselling and routine care, and routine care alone, firstly, in reducing positive psychotic symptoms; secondly, in preventing the exacerbation of positive symptoms and reducing hospital stay; and, thirdly, by using the convention of the previous study of 50 % improvement in positive symptoms as an indicator of considerable clinical improvement, 6 in the number of patients achieving such improvement.

Giving cognitive behaviour therapy in addition to routine care reduced positive psychotic symptoms more than giving routine care alone

Both interventions were associated with significant reductions in positive psychotic symptoms.6 This paper reports on the initial results of a larger randomised controlled trial of intensive cognitive behaviour therapy as an adjunct to routine care, including stable prophylactic medication, in the treatment of chronic schizophrenia.

Objectives: To investigate whether intensive cognitive behaviour therapy results in significant improvement in positive psychotic symptoms in patients with chronic schizophrenia.

A logistic regression analysis was used to identify variables having a significant independent association with an improvement of 50 % or more in positive psychotic symptoms.

Primary outcomes: relapse (re-emergence of, or significant deterioration in, positive psychotic symptoms of at least moderate severity, persisting for ⩾ 2 weeks) and total days in hospital.

Standardised measures were used to assess positive psychotic symptoms as the primary outcome measure.

Outcome measures: Assessments of positive psychotic symptoms before treatment and 3 months after treatment.

Not exact matches

Participants had psychotic symptoms, not caused by substance misuse, for > 4 weeks and scored 4 or more on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

301 people aged 18 — 65 years (218 without carers, 83 with carers) with non-affective psychosis (ICD - 10 category F2 and DSM - IV) and a second or subsequent psychotic episode not more than 3 months before the trial began, plus a rating of at least 4 for one or more positive symptoms on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale positive symptoms on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

The impact of the CT intervention extended beyond positive symptoms to include insight, dysphoria and «low level» psychotic thinking.