Table 4. Mean adjusted† social functioning scores across disorders with effect sizes (N = 106).
Schizophrenia patients N = 56 | Alzheimer’s disease patients N = 50 | p-value | Effect size d | |
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Behavioral social indicators | ||||
Social withdrawal, mean (SE) | 10.4 (0.5) | 12.3 (0.5) | 0.27 | 0.40 |
Interpersonal functioning, mean (SE) | 6.4 (0.4) | 8.1 (0.4) | 0.08 | 0.28 |
Independence-competence, mean (SE) | 36.2 (0.7) | 33.9 (0.8) | 0.54 | 0.33 |
Independence-performance, mean (SE) | 29.4 (1.1) | 28.1 (1.2) | 1.00 | 0.13 |
Recreational activities, mean (SE) | 19.3 (1.4) | 23.2 (1.6) | 0.98 | 0.27 |
Pro-social activities, mean (SE) | 24.8 (2.1) | 28.6 (2.4) | 1.00 | 0.18 |
Total SFS score, mean (SE) | 111.2 (1.7) | 116.5 (1.9) | 0.70 | 0.31 |
Affective social indicators | ||||
Perceived social disability, mean (SE) | 11.3 (0.8) | 6.1 (0.9) | 0.008 | 0.65 |
Rater-perceived social disability, mean (SE) | 12.2 (0.8) | 10.5 (1.0) | 1.00 | 0.20 |
Loneliness, mean (SE) | 4.6 (0.6) | 2.0 (0.7) | 0.21 | 0.41 |
† Adjusted for age, sex, years of education, partner status and country. Bonferroni adjustment for multiple comparisons.