Remediation of context-processing deficits in schizophrenia: preliminary data with ambiguous sentences

Figures & data

Table 1 Sociocultural and clinical characteristics (mean ± standard deviation)

Characteristics	Healthy participants, n=28	Schizophrenic participants, n=31	χ^2/t	P
Sex, male/female	23/5	27/4	0.28	0.59
Age, years	37.2±9.9 (range, 18–60)	36.8±9 (range, 18–60)	−0.17	0.85
Years of education	8.3±6.7 (range, 10–12)	10.8±6.5 (range, 10–12)	1.6	0.12
Mill-Hill score	33.7±5.3	31.1±5.7	−1.8	0.08
Beck Depression Scale 21, total score	4.5±6.3	8.4±6.9	2.2	<0.03
Thought, language, and communication total score	–	6±4.9	–	–

Table 2 Results of schizophrenic and healthy participants in the disambiguation task

Context	Healthy participants	Schizophrenic participants
High	9.96±0.2	9.90±0.3
Low	3.25±1.8	3.32±1.4

Notes: Means (± standard deviations) of the number of correct responses favoring the subordinate meaning of ambiguous words in the high-context and low-context conditions.

Table 3 Mean of error rates (± standard deviations) in the remediation task in the three groups of participants

	Healthy participants	Schizophrenics without explanation	Schizophrenics with explanation
Error rates	0.71±1.36	5.56±1.75	2.07±1.87