Publication details
Vývoj náhledu na onemocnění v prvních letech po propuknutí schizofrenie.
| Title in English | The develpment of insight in schizophrenia in the first years after the onset of illness |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Psychiatrie |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Psychiatry, sexuology |
| Keywords | insight; schizophrenia |
| Description | There are estimates that between 50% and 80% of patients with schizophrenia do not believe that they are ill. Or they do accept that they experience symptoms, but they attribute these symptoms to other causes than a mental disorder. This has an important impact on compliance. Many patients may only take medication due to pressure from their families or because they just follow their doctors recommendations. Over the last decades a considerable amount of research in the study of insight in schizophrenia has been done. Current concepts operationalise insight according to five dimensions which comprise the patients awareness of mental disorder, awareness of the social consequences of disorder, awareness of the need for treatment, awareness of symptoms and attribution of symptoms to disorder. |
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