T202. HUMOR-SKILLS TRAINING IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: EFFECTS ON SYMPTOMS AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONING

BACKGROUND: Humor can provide a method of coping with a variety of stressful situations. Training of humor-related skills has proven effective in clinical samples, although humor training in patients with schizophrenia is relatively rare. METHODS: In the present study, patients with schizophrenia ha...

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Autores principales: Falkenberg, Irina, Bitsch, Florian, Berger, Philipp, Nagels, Arne, Straube, Benjamin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5888042/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby016.478
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author Falkenberg, Irina
Bitsch, Florian
Berger, Philipp
Nagels, Arne
Straube, Benjamin
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description BACKGROUND: Humor can provide a method of coping with a variety of stressful situations. Training of humor-related skills has proven effective in clinical samples, although humor training in patients with schizophrenia is relatively rare. METHODS: In the present study, patients with schizophrenia have been randomly assigned to either a training of humor abilities or a training of social skills. Training effects on measures of psychopathology, psychosocial functioning and stress were compared between groups. RESULTS: Preliminary analyses revealed that level of negative symptoms, stress and psychosocial dysfunction were significantly reduced in the humor group over the course of the training. DISCUSSION: These results suggest that humor training may improve important clinical and functional outcomes in patients with schizophrenia.
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spelling pubmed-58880422018-04-11 T202. HUMOR-SKILLS TRAINING IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: EFFECTS ON SYMPTOMS AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONING Falkenberg, Irina Bitsch, Florian Berger, Philipp Nagels, Arne Straube, Benjamin Schizophr Bull Abstracts BACKGROUND: Humor can provide a method of coping with a variety of stressful situations. Training of humor-related skills has proven effective in clinical samples, although humor training in patients with schizophrenia is relatively rare. METHODS: In the present study, patients with schizophrenia have been randomly assigned to either a training of humor abilities or a training of social skills. Training effects on measures of psychopathology, psychosocial functioning and stress were compared between groups. RESULTS: Preliminary analyses revealed that level of negative symptoms, stress and psychosocial dysfunction were significantly reduced in the humor group over the course of the training. DISCUSSION: These results suggest that humor training may improve important clinical and functional outcomes in patients with schizophrenia. Oxford University Press 2018-04 2018-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5888042/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby016.478 Text en © Maryland Psychiatric Research Center 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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T202. HUMOR-SKILLS TRAINING IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: EFFECTS ON SYMPTOMS AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONING
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