Empathy deficiency and its influencing factors of patients with schizophrenia / 吉林大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the features of empathy deficiency of the patients with schizophrenia, and to analyze the relationship between empathy ability, clinical symptoms, and social function.Methods The patients with first-episode schizophrenia (n=30)and the normal controls (n=30)were selected.Interpersonal Reactivity Index-C(IRI-C),Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS),and the Scale of Social Function in Psychosis Inpatients (SSPI )were used to measure the score of empathy, mental symptoms and the social ability;the total score of empathy and the scores of four scales in two groups were compared;the relationships between the empathy ability score and clinical symptom score,social function score in patients group were analyzed.Results The IRI-C score of the patients in schizophrenia patients group was lower than that in normal control group (P0.05) in schizophrenia patients group. Conclusion The first-episode schizophrenia patients have empathy deficiency, which is affected by the negative syndromes. The more severe negative symptoms of the patients are,the worse empathy ability is.