Awareness of illness and outcome in schizophrenia
| Autor: | Luca Arduini, P. Prosperini, Alessandro Rossi, Paolo Stratta, Artemis Kalyvoka, Enrico Daneluzzo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Chlorpromazine Asociality Affect (psychology) Outcome (game theory) Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry Aged Anhedonia General Medicine Awareness Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Treatment Outcome Schizophrenia Scale (social sciences) Female medicine.symptom Psychology Patient awareness Attitude to Health Antipsychotic Agents Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1433-8491 0940-1334 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s004060070037 |
| Popis: | The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether awareness of illness affects specific measures of outcome in schizophrenia. Patient awareness was evaluated using a shortened version of the Scale to Assess Unawareness of Mental Disorder (SUMD). Patient outcome was assessed by means of the Strauss-Carpenter scale. Our findings indicate that lack of awareness of "negative symptoms" has a considerable impact on outcome: in fact "Social Contacts" highly correlated with Blunt Affect, Anhedonia and Asociality items on the SUMD. Lack of awareness seems then to be a powerful predictor of poor outcome. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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