Open AccessSchizophrenia – Insight, Depression: A Correlation Study
Author(s) -
Prasanth Ampalam,
Raga Deepthi,
Padma Vadaparty
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.96158
Subject(s) - schizoaffective disorder , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , brief psychiatric rating scale , psychology , depression (economics) , population , clinical psychology , rating scale , scale for the assessment of negative symptoms , suicidal ideation , diagnosis of schizophrenia , bipolar disorder , major depressive disorder , mood , medicine , psychosis , poison control , suicide prevention , developmental psychology , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
Schizophrenia is one of the severe forms of mental illness which demands enormous personal and economical costs. Recent years have attracted considerable interest in the dual problem of depression in schizophrenia and its relation to insight. Most clinicians believe that poor insight in patients with schizophrenia, though problematic for treatment adherence, may be protective with respect to suicide. The assumption is that patients who do not believe that they are ill are less likely to be suicidal. Alternatively, those patients with schizophrenia who recognize and acknowledge the illness will be more of a suicidal nature.