title: Relationship between financial competence and cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia.
abstract: The present study examined financial competence in patients with schizophrenia and the relationship between their financial competence and cognitive function. The subjects consisted of 25 patients with schizophrenia (10 inpatients and 15 outpatients) and 22 normal controls who were community-dwelling people with no psychiatric disorders or cognitive deficit. To assess the subjects' cognitive function and financial competence, they completed the Japanese version of the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination (COGNISTAT), which has 10 subtests, and the Financial Competency Assessment Tool (FCAT), which has six subordinate domains of financial competence. Patients with schizophrenia performed significantly worse than the controls in all scores on the FCAT. The financial scores that were significantly different between the patients and the normal controls were significantly positively correlated with the scores on several COGNISTAT subtests (e.g. comprehension). These results suggest that patients with schizophrenia have problems with financial competence and that these problems may be accounted for by deficits in several cognitive functions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health, School of Health Sciences and Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Niekawa
authors.forename: Yukie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakuraba
authors.forename: Hanae
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Uto
authors.forename: Yoshiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kumazawa
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002017:Budgets; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D032882:Comprehension; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011340:Problem Solving; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014041:Tokyo