Associations Between Clinical Insight and History of Severe Violence in Patients With Psychosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and hypothesis

Violence is more prevalent in patients with psychotic disorders compared to the general population. Hence, adequate violence risk assessment is of high clinical importance. Impaired insight is suggested as a risk factor for violence in psychosis, but studies have yielded conflicting results. We hypothesized that impaired insight was associated with a history of severe violence in patients with psychotic disorders.

Study design

Clinical insight was assessed both using the Birchwood Insight Scale (BIS) and the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS) item G12 (lack of judgment and insight). The degree of impaired clinical insight was compared between psychosis patients with (N = 51) and without (N = 178) a history of severe violence.

SUBMITTER: Fischer-Vieler T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11207844 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature