title: Illness and insight.
abstract: The term insight, when applied to illness, encompasses a patient's awareness and the personal significance of his/her disease, and the need for treatment. Insight is shaped by cultural, psychological and neurological factors. It affects attitudes to compliance and screening, levels of distress and may influence prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, London.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: David
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001364:Awareness; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D004194:Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance