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A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study of Insight in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Patients in Remission

AIMS: To study insight correlates in schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder in remission among out-patients attending the Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: In a cross-sectional, naturalistic study, adult patients with schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder in...

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Autores principales: Ramachandran, Arul Saravanan, Ramanathan, Rajkumar, Praharaj, Samir Kumar, Kanradi, Haridas, Sharma, Podila Satya Venkata Narasimha
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4904756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335515
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.183085
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author Ramachandran, Arul Saravanan
Ramanathan, Rajkumar
Praharaj, Samir Kumar
Kanradi, Haridas
Sharma, Podila Satya Venkata Narasimha
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Ramanathan, Rajkumar
Praharaj, Samir Kumar
Kanradi, Haridas
Sharma, Podila Satya Venkata Narasimha
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description AIMS: To study insight correlates in schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder in remission among out-patients attending the Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: In a cross-sectional, naturalistic study, adult patients with schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder in remission (n = 80; schizophrenia-40, mania-20, bipolar depression-20) were compared on insight measures and clinical correlates. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Scale to Assess the Unawareness of Mental Disorders (SUMD) was used as the main tool to assess current and past measures of insight. Hogan's Drug Attitude Inventory was used to assess the drug attitude and compliance. Positive and Negative Symptom Scale for Schizophrenia, Young's Mania Rating Scale, and HAMD were used to rate psychopathology. Clinical Global Improvement was used as a screening tool for remission. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: For comparison of the three clinical groups, analysis of variance and Chi-square test were used. In the post-hoc analysis, the Ryan-Einot-Gabriel-Welsch test was used to find the group difference. RESULTS: About 40% in the schizophrenia group were unaware of their mental illness as against none in the bipolar group. The awareness of mental disorder for the current period, the awareness of the achieved effects of medications, and the awareness of social consequence was better in the bipolar group. The drug attitude (compliant positive attitude) increased as the SUMD item scale decreased or in other words, as the insight improved. CONCLUSIONS: Insight, both current and retrospect, showed significant differences between the schizophrenia and bipolar patients. Insight is significantly correlated with the observed compliance and drug attitude of the patient groups.
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spelling pubmed-49047562016-06-22 A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study of Insight in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Patients in Remission Ramachandran, Arul Saravanan Ramanathan, Rajkumar Praharaj, Samir Kumar Kanradi, Haridas Sharma, Podila Satya Venkata Narasimha Indian J Psychol Med Original Article AIMS: To study insight correlates in schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder in remission among out-patients attending the Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: In a cross-sectional, naturalistic study, adult patients with schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder in remission (n = 80; schizophrenia-40, mania-20, bipolar depression-20) were compared on insight measures and clinical correlates. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Scale to Assess the Unawareness of Mental Disorders (SUMD) was used as the main tool to assess current and past measures of insight. Hogan's Drug Attitude Inventory was used to assess the drug attitude and compliance. Positive and Negative Symptom Scale for Schizophrenia, Young's Mania Rating Scale, and HAMD were used to rate psychopathology. Clinical Global Improvement was used as a screening tool for remission. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: For comparison of the three clinical groups, analysis of variance and Chi-square test were used. In the post-hoc analysis, the Ryan-Einot-Gabriel-Welsch test was used to find the group difference. RESULTS: About 40% in the schizophrenia group were unaware of their mental illness as against none in the bipolar group. The awareness of mental disorder for the current period, the awareness of the achieved effects of medications, and the awareness of social consequence was better in the bipolar group. The drug attitude (compliant positive attitude) increased as the SUMD item scale decreased or in other words, as the insight improved. CONCLUSIONS: Insight, both current and retrospect, showed significant differences between the schizophrenia and bipolar patients. Insight is significantly correlated with the observed compliance and drug attitude of the patient groups. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4904756/ /pubmed/27335515 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.183085 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Ramachandran, Arul Saravanan
Ramanathan, Rajkumar
Praharaj, Samir Kumar
Kanradi, Haridas
Sharma, Podila Satya Venkata Narasimha
A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study of Insight in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Patients in Remission
title A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study of Insight in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Patients in Remission
title_full A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study of Insight in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Patients in Remission
title_fullStr A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study of Insight in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Patients in Remission
title_full_unstemmed A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study of Insight in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Patients in Remission
title_short A Cross-sectional, Comparative Study of Insight in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Patients in Remission
title_sort cross-sectional, comparative study of insight in schizophrenia and bipolar patients in remission
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4904756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335515
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.183085
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