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Article: What Drives Animal Fluency Performance in Cantonese-Speaking Chinese Patients with Adult-Onset Psychosis?

TitleWhat Drives Animal Fluency Performance in Cantonese-Speaking Chinese Patients with Adult-Onset Psychosis?
Authors
Keywordscategory fluency
chinese zodiac signs
psychosis
schizophrenia
semantic
Issue Date1-Feb-2023
PublisherMDPI
Citation
Brain Sciences, 2023, v. 13, n. 3, p. 372 How to Cite?
Abstract

Among the numerous studies investigating semantic factors associated with functioning in psychotic patients, most have been conducted on western populations. By contrast, the current cross-sectional study involved native Cantonese-speaking Chinese participants. Using the category fluency task, we compared performance between patients and healthy participants and examined clinical and sociodemographic correlates. First-episode psychosis patients (n = 356) and gender- and age-matched healthy participants (n = 35) were asked to generate as many ‘animals’ as they could in a minute. As expected, patients generated fewer correct responses (an average of 15.5 vs. 22.9 words), generated fewer clusters (an average of 3.7 vs. 5.4 thematically grouped nouns), switched less between clusters (on average 8.0 vs. 11.9 switches) and, interestingly, produced a larger percentage of Chinese zodiac animals than healthy participants (an average of 37.7 vs. 24.2). However, these significant group differences in the clusters and switches disappeared when the overall word production was controlled for. Within patients, education was the strongest predictor of category fluency performance (namely the number of correct responses, clusters, and switches). The findings suggest that an overall slowness in patients may account for the group differences in category fluency performance rather than any specific abnormality per se.


Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/328268
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dc.contributor.authorHui, CLM-
dc.contributor.authorSee, SHW-
dc.contributor.authorChiu, TC-
dc.contributor.authorPintos, AS-
dc.contributor.authorKroyer, JM-
dc.contributor.authorSuen, YN-
dc.contributor.authorLee, EHM-
dc.contributor.authorChan, SKW-
dc.contributor.authorChang, WC-
dc.contributor.authorElvevag, B-
dc.contributor.authorChen, EYH-
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-28T04:40:46Z-
dc.date.available2023-06-28T04:40:46Z-
dc.date.issued2023-02-01-
dc.identifier.citationBrain Sciences, 2023, v. 13, n. 3, p. 372-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/328268-
dc.description.abstract<p>Among the numerous studies investigating semantic factors associated with functioning in psychotic patients, most have been conducted on western populations. By contrast, the current cross-sectional study involved native Cantonese-speaking Chinese participants. Using the category fluency task, we compared performance between patients and healthy participants and examined clinical and sociodemographic correlates. First-episode psychosis patients (n = 356) and gender- and age-matched healthy participants (n = 35) were asked to generate as many ‘animals’ as they could in a minute. As expected, patients generated fewer correct responses (an average of 15.5 vs. 22.9 words), generated fewer clusters (an average of 3.7 vs. 5.4 thematically grouped nouns), switched less between clusters (on average 8.0 vs. 11.9 switches) and, interestingly, produced a larger percentage of Chinese zodiac animals than healthy participants (an average of 37.7 vs. 24.2). However, these significant group differences in the clusters and switches disappeared when the overall word production was controlled for. Within patients, education was the strongest predictor of category fluency performance (namely the number of correct responses, clusters, and switches). The findings suggest that an overall slowness in patients may account for the group differences in category fluency performance rather than any specific abnormality per se.<br></p>-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherMDPI-
dc.relation.ispartofBrain Sciences-
dc.subjectcategory fluency-
dc.subjectchinese zodiac signs-
dc.subjectpsychosis-
dc.subjectschizophrenia-
dc.subjectsemantic-
dc.titleWhat Drives Animal Fluency Performance in Cantonese-Speaking Chinese Patients with Adult-Onset Psychosis?-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/brainsci13030372-
dc.identifier.pmid36979182-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85151471894-
dc.identifier.hkuros344869-
dc.identifier.volume13-
dc.identifier.issue3-
dc.identifier.spage372-
dc.identifier.eissn2076-3425-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000954145700001-
dc.identifier.issnl2076-3425-

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