The Effect of an Emotion Recognition and Expression Program on the Alexithymia, Emotion Expression Skills and Positive and Negative Symptoms of Patients with Schizophrenia in a Community Mental Health Center

Aydın, RN, Adeviye; Ersoy Özcan, RN, Berna; Kaya, RN, Yunus

doi:10.1080/01612840.2024.2326951

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

2024

DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2024.2326951

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The Effect of an Emotion Recognition and Expression Program on the Alexithymia, Emotion Expression Skills and Positive and Negative Symptoms of Patients with Schizophrenia in a Community Mental Health Center

Adeviye Aydın, RN,

Berna Ersoy Özcan, RN,

Yunus Kaya, RN

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Nonverbal Communication and Alexithymia in Schizophrenia Patients

Rosel-Vales,

Martínez-Sánchez,

de Granda Tejeda

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Introduction: schizophrenia is accompanied by deficits such as alterations in social perception. Alexithymia, the impairment to express emotions or feelings, is an emotional communicative deficit common to schizophrenia. Objective: to evaluate the ability to perceive social cues, interpersonal attitudes and the communication of intentions by nonverbal expressive channels in patients with schizophrenia when compared with a control group. Method: a cross-sectional, comparative study (102 subjects, aged 18 to 45). The first group consisted of 50 patients with schizophrenia, (48% men) according to DSM-5 criteria. The second group consisted of 52 subjects (51.9% men) without psychopathology or history of mental disorders in first degree relatives, neurological deficits and intellectual disabilities. MiniPONS was used to assess social perception and the TAS-20 scale was used to assess alexithymia. We used χ2 and Student’s t-tests, and an analysis of variance of two factors (group-sex) was used for MiniPONS and TAS scores. We searched for correlations between MiniPONS, alexithymia and PANSS. Results: we found a significant correlation between education and MiniPONS and TAS scores in the schizophrenia group: r = .36, p < .01 and r = -.46, p < .01, but not in the control group: r = .17, p = .41 and r = -.08, p = .71. The schizophrenia group performed worse on the MiniPONS: 39.90, SD = 5.99. Discussion and conclusions: our results show a worse overall performance in nonverbal communication and affect identification in the patient group. These failures exemplify the difficulty of understanding their own emotions.

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Nonverbal Communication and Alexithymia in Schizophrenia Patients

Rosel-Vales,

Martínez-Sánchez,

de Granda Tejeda

et al. 2024

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The Effect of an Emotion Recognition and Expression Program on the Alexithymia, Emotion Expression Skills and Positive and Negative Symptoms of Patients with Schizophrenia in a Community Mental Health Center

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