The concordance between symptom information gathered from remitted schizophrenic patients and their relatives.

摘要: The concordance between symptom information gathered from remitted schizophrenic out-patients and the relatives with whom they live was assessed for different clusters. It hypothesized that positive symptoms would show greatest patient-relative concordance. Patients were also compared levels of overall reporting. long-term memory problems, anosognosia, underreporting in order to appear healthy, cause patients report fewer than their relatives. An alternative hypothesis underreport avoid “blame” relatives' illness, because did not have direct experience symptomatology. 24-item version Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) administered 41 (chart diagnoses validated by a DSM-III-R diagnostic checklist). Fourteen BPRS items then used glean about patients' symptomatology patients. Interviews revealed significantly more interviews total non-positive (both p-values < .01), but symptoms. Intraclass correlations (ICC) assessments moderate (ICC = .54, p low .26, .05) negligible (.13, ns). Despite potential due factors like anosognosia are still best source