title: The Social Occupational Functioning Scale (SOFS): a brief measure of functional status in persons with schizophrenia.
abstract: The social functioning of persons with schizophrenia contributes to their overall functional outcome and ability to live in the community. Enhancing the level of social functioning is an important treatment goal. The present study describes the development of the Social Occupational Functioning Scale (SOFS), a brief, yet comprehensive, easy to administer measure of social functioning for use in busy clinical settings. It has adequate psychometric properties in terms of reliability and validity. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure comprising of adaptive living skills, social appropriateness and interpersonal skills, accounting for 59% of the variance in total SOFS score.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560 029, India.
authors.forename: Nirmal
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Saraswat
authors.forename: Kiran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Subbakrishna
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Gangadhar
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment