title: Insight controlled for cognition in deficit and nondeficit schizophrenia.
abstract: Patients with deficit schizophrenia have worse cognition and poorer social functioning compared to the nondeficit ones. Insight is another domain in which these two groups might differ, but data on insight impairment in deficit versus nondeficit schizophrenia are still scarce. We compared 29 patients with deficit schizophrenia to 44 nondeficit patients and found a tendency to poorer insight in the deficit group. However such tendency disappeared when analysis was controlled for cognition, a domain in which both groups differed significantly. This finding reinforces the pressing need for simultaneous assessment of the several dimensions or domains of schizophrenic psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil. dantascr@gmail.com
authors.forename: Clarissa R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Dantas
authors.forename: Bruno R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Barros
authors.forename: Paula T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.forename: Li M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Claudio E M
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Banzato
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D055815:Young Adult