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A self‐report Insight Scale for psychosis: reliability, validity and sensitivity to change
Abstract
Lack of insight is a frequent concomitant of psychosis and has traditionally been viewed as a binary, all or none phenomenon. Recent conceptualization has formulated insight as a continuum representing the juxtaposition of 3 factors – awareness of illness, need for treatment and attribution of symptoms. Measurement of insight has been exclusively based on interview; this method does not easily lend itself to frequent repeated measurement and requires interrater reliability to be established. A self‐report Insight Scale is presented, and evidence in support of its reliability, validity and sensitivity is provided that includes a sample of 30 patients monitored during recovery from an acute psychosis. The scale is a quick and acceptable measure that may find application in investigations of acute care, cognitive therapy of psychotic symptoms and as a method of augmenting clinical judgements of insight.
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- Birchwood, M., Smith, J., Drury, V., Healy, J., Macmillan, F., & Slade, M.
- Venue
- Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1994-01
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 62-67
- ISSN
- 0001-690X (ISSN-L)
- 1600-0447
- OpenAlex
- W2135061890
- Cited by
- 679
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 3.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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