PsychosisBank English Palaniyappan Discourse-UWO Corpus


Lena Palaniyappan
Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health
McGill University
Participants: 146
Type of Study: discourse -- conversations
Location: Canada
Media type: audio
DOI: doi:10.21415/T30R-YM65

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Discourse In Psychosis - UWO data

This is a dataset collected from people with established psychotic disorders (predominantly schizophrenia; consensus based best-estimate diagnosis) and healthy control subjects in London, Ontario using the full DISCOURSE protocol (unstructured conversation, personal narrative, picture description [3 TAT pictures] , health narrative, dream reports, storyboard [lighthouse], reading and recall [pitcher and crow]). DISCOURSE-based demographic data on immigration status, parental socio-economic status, language at home, data on antipsychotic doses, 10-item PANSS, occurrence of relapses over 1 year, and follow-up speech data after 1 year, social, occupational and educational functioning data, self-endorsed substance use data (cannabis, nicotine and alcohol) are also available. Part of the sample has verbal fluency and modified digit symbol substitution data. data.