title: [Recovery style, symptoms and psychosocial functioning in psychotic patients: a preliminary study].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Both integration and sealing over have been identified as global, clinically distinct recovery styles from the psychotic illness. The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between recovery style, symptoms and global functioning in psychotic patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  106 psychiatric patients in different phases of recovery were studied (no patient at the first episode in our sample). The Integration/Sealing Over Scale, the Recovery Style Questionnaire, the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and the Life Skills Profile were completed for all patients; moreover, socio-demographic and clinical data were collected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A relationship was found between the integrative recovery style and age >45 years (p<0.05), integration and affective disorders (p<0.05), delusions and sealing over (p<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although the limited study sample, our findings suggest some predictors of integration which should be taken into consideration to "drive" patients toward an integrative recovery style after an acute psychotic episode.
authors: Nicola
authors: N
authors: Poloni
authors: Marcello
authors: M
authors: Diurni
authors: Aldo
authors: A
authors: Buzzi
authors: Sara
authors: S
authors: Cazzamalli
authors: Francesca
authors: F
authors: Aletti
authors: Federico
authors: F
authors: Baranzini
authors: Simone
authors: S
authors: Vender
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*