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BMC PSYCHIATRY
卷 20, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-020-02959-5
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Schizophrenia; Psychosis; Delusions; Jumping to conclusions; Cognitive bias; Delusional conviction
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资金
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [01GV0618, 01GV0620]
- Projekt DEAL
BackgroundThe jumping to conclusions bias (JTC) is considered to be an important causal factor in theoretical models for the formation and maintenance of delusions. However, recent meta-analytic findings show a rather equivocal pattern of results regarding associations between JTC and delusions. Thus, the present study aims to investigate in a large sample whether the JTC-bias is more pronounced in patients with psychotic disorders in comparison to controls and whether the JTC bias is associated with a more severe delusional conviction, persecutory delusions, and positive symptoms in general.MethodsPatients with psychotic disorders (n=300) enrolled in a therapy trial and healthy controls (n=51) conducted a variant of the beads task (fish task) as a measure for the JTC-bias at the start of the trial. Further, clinical interviews were used to assess patients' delusional severity and delusional conviction.ResultsThere were no statistically significant differences between patients with psychotic disorders (with 53% displaying the JTC-bias) and controls (41%). Furthermore, there were no statistically significant correlations between JTC measures and persecutory delusions, delusional conviction, and positive symptoms.ConclusionsWe found no differences in JTC between patients with psychotic disorders and healthy controls, which is in part in line with meta-analytic findings using a wide range of JTC task variants. Interestingly, patients with psychotic disorders displayed JTC rates commonly found in the literature, while healthy control subjects showed an unexpectedly high level of JTC. The task variant we used in the present study (fish task) is discussed as a potential reason for our results, as it may induce a more deliberative reasoning style in controls as compared to the traditional beads task. Furthermore, possible implications for the measurement of the JTC-bias, in general, are discussed.Trial RegistrationISRCTN29242879 (isrctn.com), date of registration: April 12th 2006, retrospectively registered.
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