Evidence that health attributions and symptom severity predict insight in schizophrenia
| Autor: | Colin O. Donnell, Nicholas Owens, Eadbhard O'Callaghan, Gary Donohoe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Coping (psychology) Psychosis Personality Inventory Health Status Neuropsychological Tests Severity of Illness Index Cognition Surveys and Questionnaires Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Cognitive skill Psychiatry Internal-External Control Probability Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Symptom severity medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Schizophrenia Regression Analysis Female Schizophrenic Psychology Attribution Psychology Attitude to Health |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of nervous and mental disease. 192(9) |
| ISSN: | 0022-3018 |
| Popis: | Although a relationship between insight and symptomatology in schizophrenia has been repeatedly demonstrated, the influence of psychological variables such as coping mechanisms and attributional style is less clear. We evaluated health attributions, subjective resources for coping, symptomatology, general cognitive functioning, and insight among 38 consecutive admissions with DSM-III-R schizophrenia from a geographically defined catchment area. Health attributions accounted for a significant amount of insight even after symptom severity was accounted for and together predicted 32% of variation in insight scores. This study emphasizes the multifactorial nature of insight and the importance of psychological variables in addition to symptomatology. |
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