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KLINIK PSIKOFARMAKOLOJI BULTENI-BULLETIN OF CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, vol.19, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
Introduction: Despite advances in the treatment of schizophrenia and shortened hospitalization times, the majority of schizophrenia patients suffer important losses in social and occupational areas. Literature reveals some studies that show correlations between social functioning of schizophrenia patients and positive-negative, cognitive, and affective symptoms of the disease, and side-effects of antipsychotic drugs and some studies that have found no correlations between these parameters. This study aimed to investigate correlations between social functioning of schizophrenia patients, which has increasingly become the focus of treatment, and positive and negative symptoms, presence of obsessive compulsive symptoms and side effects of drugs.