Correlates of insight among patients with bipolar I disorder in remission.
BACKGROUND
The aims of this study were to explore the levels of insight in a group of bipolar patients in remission and to investigate factors related to capacity for insight.


METHODS
Using the Schedule of Assessment of Insight (SAI) and its expanded version (SAI-E), we interviewed 65 patients with bipolar I disorder in remission to determine their levels of insight. Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the factors that influenced insight.


RESULTS
Our results revealed that most of our bipolar subjects had fair or good insight, though some residual insight impairment was still observed. Multiple regression analysis revealed that being male, having a shorter duration of illness and having psychotic features predicted poorer insight in two dimensions of SAI and SAI-E, accounting for 18.6-23% of the variance.


CONCLUSIONS
The six independent variables used in these multiple regression could only account in part for the variance of insight, indicating that there must be other variables that influence insight of bipolar patients in remission.


CONCLUSIONS
These results indicated that bipolar patients with the factors predicting poor insight should possibly receive interventions to improve their insight and advance their recovery.
Yen
Cheng-Fang
CF
Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Medical University No. 100, Shih-Chuan 1st Rd, Kaohsiung City, 807 Taiwan.
Chen
Cheng-Sheng
CS
Yeh
Ming-Li
ML
Ker
Jhy-Hong
JH
Yang
Shang-Ju
SJ
Yen
Ju-Yu
JY
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012074:Remission Induction; D012649:Self Concept