The relationship between insight and symptoms in schizophrenia

Differing correlates for suicide attempts among patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder in India and USA

“…While Grunebaum et al (2001) did not find evidence that presence of delusions affects suicidality, Kucharska-Pietura et al (2000) reported that delusions, hallucinations and subjective awareness of these phenomena increased the risk for suicide attempts. The level of insight is lower among subjects with predominantly negative symptoms compared with subjects with predominantly positive symptoms (Sevy et al, 2004). Our analysis of US patients regarding patterns of symptoms are consistent with these reports.…”

Association Between Attitude Toward Medication and Neurocognitive Function in Schizophrenia

“…50 Therefore, psychosocial treatment should include not only information about the illness and medication but also skills that might enable patients to take their medications appropriately. 16,51,52 Indeed, because there are no definitively effective psychosocial 15,16 although the details of the cognitive areas related to attitude toward medication differed somewhat. These differences might result from differences in the cognitive test battery used or the small sample size and limited subject characteristics in the previous studies, 15,16 in which nearly all the subjects were chronic male inpatients.…”

“…14 Therefore, it could be hypothesized that the more the neurocognitive function was impaired, the more the attitude toward medication would be negative. However, only a few studies 15,16 have examined the relationship between neurocognitive function and attitude toward medication, which is a putative predictor of adherence. This study aimed to examine the relationship between attitude toward drug treatment and various aspects of neurocognitive function, as well as clinical status in patients with schizophrenia.…”

The relationship between insight and autobiographical memory for emotional events in schizophrenia

“…Previously reported predictors of insight, including age of onset (Ayesa-Arriola et al, 2011), symptom severity (Mintz et al, 2003;Sevy et al, 2004), and premorbid intelligence and working memory (Aleman et al, 2006), were correlated with each SUMD item using Spearman's Rank correlation coefficient. Only age at first admission, a proxy measure for age of onset, was found to be a significant predictor for awareness of current (r s ¼ 0.51, p ¼ 0.011) and past (r s ¼ 0.46, p ¼ 0.029) mental disorder and current (r s ¼ 0.42, p ¼ 0.039) and past (r s ¼0.43, p ¼0.043) achieved effects of medication.…”