Negative symptoms in schizophrenia, assessed by the brief negative symptom scale, self-evaluation of negative symptom scale, and social cognition: a gender effect.

CONCLUSIONS: Gender differences were found in the assessment of negative symptoms by a clinical scale and the relationship between negative symptoms and social cognition. KEY POINTS Female patients scored better in the BNSS, PSP and both parts of the Faux-Pas test Gender differences were present in the assessment of negative symptoms by clinical (BNSS) but not the self-assessment (SNS) scale. Female patients obtained a significant correlation between the results of the SNS scale, BNSS, PSP, and the affective part of the Faux-Pas test what was not the case in male subjects. PMID: 32862741 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract Source Type: research