Instruments for assessing insight in psychosis: A systematic review of psychometric properties.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Insight into psychosis is a multidimensional construct involving awareness of illness, attribution of symptoms, and perceived need for treatment. Despite extensive research, substantial variability in how insight is conceptualized and measured continues to hinder clinical assessment and cross-study comparisons.

Methods

Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols guidelines and a registered International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews protocol (CRD42024558386), we conducted a systematic search across five databases (n = 2,184). Twenty-nine studies met the inclusion criteria, comprising 15 primary scale development papers and 10 independent validation studies. We included instruments explicitly designed to

SUBMITTER: Hazan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12671917 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature