Open AccessBeliefs about voices and their relation to severity of psychosis in chronic schizophrenia patients
Author(s) -
Nishtha Chawla,
Raman Deep Pattanayak,
Shubham Khandelwal,
Ajay Garg
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_573_18
Subject(s) - global assessment of functioning , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , clinical global impression , psychology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , positive and negative syndrome scale , interquartile range , scale for the assessment of negative symptoms , severity of illness , rating scale , clinical significance , brief psychiatric rating scale , medicine , developmental psychology , alternative medicine , pathology , placebo
Auditory hallucinations may persist in a subset of chronic psychotic patients in spite of treatment. It is important to understand the personal meaning and significance of voices in these patients. In spite of its relevance, only a limited literature is available.