Background: Emotional facial expression from recognition disability may represent specific deficits at social function in patients with schizophrenia. The aim of the current study is to comparison of emotion facial expression from recognition in schizophrenia: paranoid, disorganized and control people.
Method: Method of the current research is cause-comparative. The sample of this study included 60 patients with schizophrenia (30 persons of paranoid and 30 persons of disorganized) and 30 persons of control, who were selected from available sampling method. For data collection the emotion facial expression from recognition test have been used. For analyzing data multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and LSD as post hoc test have been used.
Results: Results showed significant differences among three groups in happy, sad, surprise, angry and disgust emotions facial expression from recognition (P<0/05) and people with schizophrenia have deficits in upon emotions facial expression from recognition. Also, people with paranoid schizophrenia the better the performance of than people with disorganized schizophrenia in sad and surprise emotions facial expression from recognition were.
Conclusion: Defect in emotion facial expression from recognition in schizophrenic patient is deeper than control persons, also these defects in disorganized patient were more prominent than paranoid patient. The results of this study have important implications in the field of treatment and follow-up in schizophrenia.
ghasempour A, narimani M, abolghasemi A, hasanzade S. Comparison of emotion facial expression from recognition in paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia and control people. J. Ilam Uni. Med. Sci. 2013; 21 (6) :114-124 URL: http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-485-en.html