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deficits in schizophrenic patients reflect an enduring trait-like status. With factor analytic analysis,
the neurocognitive measures can be simplified without losing their clinical predictiveness.
5067.5 Cognitive disorder in drawings by schizophrenic patients, M. Yokota, Nihon University,
Tokyo, Japan
Drawings by schizophrenic patients were examined to show their cognitive disorder symptoms.
The patients’ drawings showed various pathological constructive patterns including a parallel
arrangement of objects, a double exposure of objects, a difficulty of a viewpoint change, and
inability to transform. Normal participants evaluated those drawings as static, disintegrate, and
no-perspective. Pathological symptoms seemed to be represented in the disintegration in the
drawings. A follow-up study indicated that the drawings by the schizophrenic patients regressed
from those drawn by the same patients when they were admitted to hospital 2 years before. These
results showed that drawings of schizophrenic patients reflected the state of their cognitive
disorder related to the schizophrenic deteriorative process.
5068 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Psychosocial factors and SARS: An empirical examination
Convener and Chair: E.R. Greenglass, Canada
5068.1 The longitudinal study of Chinese 17 cities’ risk perceptions of SARS, K. Shi, H. Fan, J.
Lu, W. Hu, J. Gao, W. Li, X. Chen, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
The study compared peoples’ risk perception and evaluation of the SARS-related information
between the period of SARS and after SRAS by surveying a stratified sample of 4231 people at
the first time and 2770 people at the second time. The results showed that information of personal
interest was the primary factor to arouse peoples’ risk perception of high level. The SARS
pathogens and infectivity after recovering from SARS, which people felt dangerous during the
period of SARS, decreased significantly after SRAS. The physical health condition after
recovering from SARS aroused peoples’ sense of unfamiliarity, consequently to let people feel
danger.
5068.2 Public understanding of SARS, B. George, The SARS Psychosocial Research
Consortium, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Responses to an internet-based survey of individuals in areas affected by SARS and areas
unaffected indicated that respondents in both areas had realistic concepts of what SARS is and its
symptoms but tended to underestimate its mortality rate. Greater worry about SARS was reported
by respondents in affected areas. Further, they took appropriate precautions and reported
monitoring specific symptoms, particularly fever, to determine if they might have SARS.
Respondents also reported avoiding specific people due to SARS. Worry about SARS played a
key role in motivating precautionary behavior as well avoidance of individuals associated with
SARS. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
5068.3 A follow up study of mental health of SARS Patients in recovery, W. Gao, Z. Chen, J.
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