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Clinicians are often asked to assess functional impairment in psychiatric patients for vocational, academic, or benefits-related purposes. To determine whether psychiatric symptoms were predictive of functional impairment, investigators recruited 155 adult psychiatric outpatients or day treatment patients in Switzerland (mean age, 36; women, 68%; mean years of education, 12; receiving public welfare, 23%; receiving disability payments, 19%).
Participants were diagnosed with structured interviews for axis I, axis II, and dissociative disorders and did not have psychosis, psychiatric disorders due to medical conditions, intellectual disability, and substance intoxication/withdrawal. Every 6 months, patients completed rating scales assessing ge…