Life satisfaction among individuals with schizophrenia in the clinical antipsychotic trial of intervention effectiveness (CATIE) study

摘要

To the Editor: Schizophrenia is often characterized by poor psychosocial functioning, which in turn has been linked to clinical features such as anhedonia and diminished general well-being, as measured by constructs such as subjective quality of life (1). However, some evidence, including research from our own group, argues against the notion that individuals with schizophrenia are by definition anhedonic (2) and has demonstrated that despite marked functional impairment, individuals with schizophrenia are as happy as healthy comparison subjects (3).