“…Furthermore, it is important to evaluate and manage comorbid depressive symptoms adequately as they are associated with extended hospitalization, higher relapse rates, poorer social functioning, and an increased risk of suicide (Addington & Addington, 1992;Hausmann & Fleischhacker, 2002;Kim, Shin, Kim, Lee, et al, 2007a;Kim, Shin, Kim, Yoo, et al, 2007b;Yoo et al, 2015). Depressive symptoms can occur during different phases of psychosis (Coentre et al, 2017). Although earlier studies suggested that depressive symptoms predict better treatment outcome (Stephens, Astrup, & Mangrum, 1966), this is not supported by more recent research findings (Conley, Ascher-Svanum, Zhu, Faries, & Kinon, 2007;Gardsjord et al, 2016;McGinty, Sayeed Haque, & Upthegrove, 2018).…”