These included most
positive symptom factor items as well as others where conventional antipsychotics typically don't fare very well, such as emotional withdrawal, active social avoidance, anxiety, depression, tension, poor impulse control, hostility, excitement, disturbance of volition, and conceptual disorganization.
With only one exception, (the correlation of the COTE task behavior score with the PANSS
positive symptom score) all the correlation coefficients were > 0.
We're getting
positive symptom response plus cognitive improvement.
An improvement of at least 2 points on any two of the five
positive symptom items on the PANSS at 2 weeks turned out to have virtually the same positive and negative predictive value as a 20% or greater improvement in PANSS total score.
His
positive symptom score was 48 as assessed by the Scale for Assessment of
Positive Symptoms (SAPS) and negative symptom score as assessed by the Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) was 29.
This instrument is composed of 53 items, rated on a Likert scale of five grades (0 "rarely" to 4 "very often"), nine dimensions and three global indexes which express psychometric ratings of emotional distress: global severity index (GSI),
positive symptoms total (PSTI) and
positive symptom distress index (PSDI).
The
positive symptom scores of the PANSS scale were negatively correlated with the Gln concentration in the anterior cingulate cortex (r=-0.
Furthermore, the instrument permits the calculation of the global severity index (GSI), which is a measure of the intensity of global mental and psychosomatic suffering, the
positive symptom total (PST) which is the number of symptoms present, and the
positive symptom distress index (PSDI).
In the present study there was mean decrease in
positive symptom score from baseline to end of the study and there was statistically significant reduction in positive score among both groups.
It also includes seven additional items that together make up the Additional Scale, exploring aspects of diet and sleep; and three Global Scores: Global Severity Index (GSI), a general, non-specific measure of the intensity of overall psychological and psychosomatic distress; the
Positive Symptom Total (PST), or sum of affirmative responses, refers to the breadth and diversity of psychopathology; and last, the
Positive Symptom Distress Index (PSDI) indicates average symptom severity.
Given the high burden of TB disease in SA, an initial GXP on all patients with a
positive symptom screen for TB is appropriate, despite the cost of the test.
In the study of 1,200 women age 40 to 87, five percent of the responders reported a
positive symptom score that indicated the need for further testing.
