| Title |
Evaluation of negative symptoms in schizophrenia using standardized assessment tools. literature review / |
| Translation of Title |
Evaluation of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia Using Standardized Assessment Tools. Literature Review. |
| Authors |
Tolppanen, Iisak |
| Full Text |
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| Pages |
28 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Negative symptoms, Schizophrenia, Assessment tools |
| Abstract [eng] |
This narrative literature review explores the most prominent standardized tools for the assessment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia in a chronological order. It begins by giving a short history of negative symptoms in schizophrenia and explains how they are viewed today. It then showcases the development of the tools to this day by their respective generations and explains their unique advantages and disadvantages, while considering their theoretical and practical virtues. The work also includes examples of the very recently developed digital methods, as it explores what new potentialities these methods can give us which have been hitherto unavailable. In the end, based on previous considerations given, the work gives answers as to why there is not simply one tool overshadowing all the others. Reasons are given why this is the case and why such a tool is not possible at the moment. Such a tool not being available at the moment need not imply that such a tool is impossible, and so the work briefly explores if such a tool could be possible in principle. |
| Dissertation Institution |
Vilniaus universitetas. |
| Type |
Master thesis |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2023 |
