Cognitive effects of antipsychotics in schizophrenia and relationship to quality of life

Abstract

Comments on the article by T. Sharma (see record 1999-05784-006) that provided an overview of the cognitive effects of antipsychotics in schizophrenia. Sharma stressed a relationship between cognitive function in schizophrenia and quality of life as an outcome measure. The present author believes it is necessary to make a distinction between quality of life as an evaluation criterion for illness-related phenomena (negative symptoms), and quality of life as a subjective assessment by the patient as a subjective evaluation of oneself and one's social and material world-that is, subjective quality of life, not as a disease but as a generic concept. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)