title: Course of insight in manic episode.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Insight is an important factor associated with non compliance and poor outcome. Poor level of insight has been described as a characteristic in patients with acute bipolar disorder with more unawareness in social consequences with increasing severity in manic episode.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Main aim of study was to see the baseline and longitudinal relationship between dimensions of insight with improvement in psychopathology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty four patients diagnosed with mania, were selected from an inpatient setting at Institute of Mental Health and Hospital, Agra with mean age of 31.07(±9.00) years. They were assessed at base line and were followed up weekly or psychopathology and insight.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Young's mania rating scale for psychopathology and insight was assessed on three dimensions of SUMD.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty five patients eventually completed the study. There was a positive correlation with global insight and with psychopathology consistent in longitudinal follow-up (P<0.05), but not correlating for awareness for achieved effect of medication and social consequences. Linear regression showed a positive relationship at the first and second week of assessment of SUMD and YMRS scores (P=0.001; 0.019).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Improvement in insight is graded in a manic episode as compared to psychopathology. There is slower improvement in awareness of social consequences of mental disorder. It means that improvement in psychopathology may not necessarily indicate remission and need further supervision to improve insight and hence monitoring.
authors.affiliation: State Mental Health Institute, Selaqui, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mishra
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011599:Psychopathology; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult