psychosis schizophrenia psychosis
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Erasmus MC, Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam
Eligibility
Age
16 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. All participants must give signed informed consent; 2. Participants have a psychotic disorder classified according to DSM-5; 3. Participants are 16-46 years
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Unable to give informed consent to all aspects of the study; 2. Unable to speak and be interviewed in Dutch; 3. Neurological comorbidities affecting speech, e.g. brain haemorrhage.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Automatic quantified acoustic aspects of speech (e.g duration of pauses, changes in pitch and mean sentence lengths) and complex tests scores at the different linguistic levels phonology, semantics and syntax selected for language production and comprehension. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| We will relate speech characteristics and test scores from the DIMA to the severity of positive, negative and cognitive psychosis symptoms. We will also quantify the movement assessments and exploratorily related these measures to PANSS scores (and possibly to speech characteristics). | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Contacts
Public ContactN.H. Grootendorst
Erasmus MC, Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam
Outcome results
None listed