Assessment of insight in psychosis.

摘要: OBJECTIVE It is frequently reported that patients with psychotic disorders have poor insight into their illness. Previous research has suggested may considerable power in predicting the long-term course of chronic mental and an impact on patients' compliance treatment plans. The authors, proposing best viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, developed Scale to Assess Unawareness Mental Disorder, which samples discrete global aspects across variety manifestations This article reports reliability validity study scale. METHOD subjects were 43 schizophrenia schizoaffective disorder. Various illness evaluated In addition, ratings psychopathology, illness, made. RESULTS Item variability was high normally distributed, supporting authors' contention can be rated continuous rather than dichotomous Results analyses examining relations between various dimensions assessed course, variables generally hypothesized. Convergent other measures found, correlated poorer Examination interrelations among four subscales revealed these sample independent phenomena. CONCLUSIONS Disorder good certain advantages over previous insight, suggesting usefulness view this complex concept.