کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4184962 1277338 2009 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Evaluation of the association between insight and symptoms in a large sample of patients with schizophrenia
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Evaluation of the association between insight and symptoms in a large sample of patients with schizophrenia
چکیده انگلیسی

BackgroundThe objective of the present study was to examine the association of insight into the illness with demographic variables and symptomatology in a sample of 1213 patients with schizophrenia.MethodData were collected with the Psychosis Evaluation tool for Common use by Caregivers (PECC), a semi-structured interview evaluating five symptom domains of schizophrenia and the insight items ‘awareness of having a mental disorder’ and ‘attributing symptoms to a mental disorder’.ResultsInsight was positively associated with educational level and inversely with overall symptom severity, and the positive, negative, excitatory and cognitive symptom domains. At symptom level, the items ‘delusions’, ‘grandiosity’, ‘poor rapport’, ‘social withdrawal’ and ‘guilt feelings’ showed the strongest associations with both insight items. Overall, correlations between insight and symptomatology were modest, explaining less than 30% of the variance in insight.ConclusionLack of insight in schizophrenia is partially explained by clinical symptoms and demographic measures.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: European Psychiatry - Volume 24, Issue 8, December 2009, Pages 507–512
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