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The EVACO Project: A new battery for assessing social cognition disorders and related psychiatric disability in schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

P. Roux*
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
M. Urbach
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
S. Fonteneau
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
B. Aouizerate
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Centre Hospitalier Charles-Perrens Bordeaux, 33076, France Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Inserm, Neurocentre Magendie, Physiopathologie de la Plasticité Neuronale, U862 Bordeaux, 33000, France Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, Inserm U1114, Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Inserm U955, Translational Psychiatry team, Créteil, France Paris Est University, DHU Pe-PSY, Pôle de Psychiatrie des Hôpitaux Universitaires H.-Mondor, Créteil, France
F. Berna
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, Inserm U1114, Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Inserm U955, Translational Psychiatry team, Créteil, France Paris Est University, DHU Pe-PSY, Pôle de Psychiatrie des Hôpitaux Universitaires H.-Mondor, Créteil, France
L. Brunel
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte, Hôpital la Colombière, CHRU de Montpellier, Université Montpellier 1, Inserm 1061, Montpellier, France
D. Capdevielle
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France CMP B, CHU, EA 7280 Faculté de Médecine, Université d’Auvergne, BP 69 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 1, 63003, France
I. Chereau
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier Pole Est, BP 300, 39–95, boulevard Pinel Bron cedex, 69678, France
J. Danion
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Inserm U955, Translational Psychiatry team, Créteil, France
J. Dorey
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France AP–HP, Department of Psychiatry, Louis-Mourier Hospital, Inserm U894, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de médecine, Colombes, France
C. Dubertret
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Centre Référent de Réhabilitation Psychosociale, Centre Hospitalier Alpes Isère, Grenoble, France
J. Dubreucq
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Assistance publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP–HM), pôle universitaire de psychiatrie, Marseille, France
C. Faget
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France CNRS UMR 5287-INCIA, France
F. Gabayet
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Assistance publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP–HM), pôle universitaire de psychiatrie, Marseille, France
P.M. Llorca
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier Pole Est, BP 300, 39–95, boulevard Pinel Bron cedex, 69678, France
J. Mallet
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Centre Référent de Réhabilitation Psychosociale, Centre Hospitalier Alpes Isère, Grenoble, France
D. Misdrahi
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Centre Hospitalier Charles-Perrens Bordeaux, 33076, France Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Inserm, Neurocentre Magendie, Physiopathologie de la Plasticité Neuronale, U862 Bordeaux, 33000, France Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, Inserm U1114, Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Inserm U955, Translational Psychiatry team, Créteil, France Paris Est University, DHU Pe-PSY, Pôle de Psychiatrie des Hôpitaux Universitaires H.-Mondor, Créteil, France FondaMental Academic Centers of Expertise for Schizophrenia (FACE-SZ) group, France
R. Rey
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France AP–HP, Department of Psychiatry, Louis-Mourier Hospital, Inserm U894, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de médecine, Colombes, France
R. Richieri
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France CNRS UMR 5287-INCIA, France
F. Schürhoff
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte, Hôpital la Colombière, CHRU de Montpellier, Université Montpellier 1, Inserm 1061, Montpellier, France
H. Yazbek
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France CMP B, CHU, EA 7280 Faculté de Médecine, Université d’Auvergne, BP 69 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 1, 63003, France
C. Passerieux
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Service de psychiatrie d’adulte, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, UFR des Sciences de la Santé Simone Veil, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles, France
E. Brunet-Gouet
Affiliation:
Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France Service de psychiatrie d’adulte, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, UFR des Sciences de la Santé Simone Veil, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles, France
FACE-SCZ-Group
Affiliation:
FondaMental Academic Centers of Expertise for Schizophrenia (FACE-SZ) group, France
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*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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The relation of social cognitive disorders and schizophrenic symptoms are well-established. Yet, assessment methods have not reached a consensus. In addition, causal paths between neurocognition, social cognition, symptoms and functional expression are not clearly understood. During the past few years, some authoritative accounts proposed specialized batteries of tests and emphasized theory of mind, emotion recognition, and interpretation bias constructs:

– NIMH's “Social cognition psychometric evaluation” battery (Pinkham AE, Penn DL, Green MF, Harvey PD. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2015);

– “Social cognition and functioning in schizophrenia” (Green MF, Lee J, Ochsner KN. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2013).

Interestingly, these accounts stemming either from expert consensus and psychometric considerations or from neuroscience knowledge recognized some difficulties in providing a fully usable set of instruments. The project described here (EVACO protocol, funded by the Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique national) follows an alternative approach and aims at providing a psychometrically validated battery. Based on a cognitive neuropsychology view on schizophrenic functional disability, several tests were gathered and are assessed in a 12-months multi-center follow-up of 160 individuals with schizophrenia. The FondaMental foundation network of Expert Centers is involved in recruiting patients from eight centers (Clermont-Ferrand, Colombes, Créteil, Grenoble, Marseille, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Versailles). To-date, the first evaluation of the population has been achieved. Experience reports and inclusions follow-up demonstrate the good acceptability of this battery both on the patients and the evaluator's side. We emphasize the usefulness of this project to meet the clinicians’ needs of validated social cognition tools, by describing different scenarios of use.

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