Co-occurring Deficits in Clinical and Cognitive Insight in Prolonged Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders: Relationship to Metacognitive Deficits.

ABSTRACT: People diagnosed with schizophrenia have been broadly observed to experience deficits in clinical and cognitive insight; however, less is understood about how these deficits are related. One possibility is that these deficits co-occur among people when other deficits in cognition are present, such as in executive function, social cognition, and metacognition, which may either promote the development of both forms of poor insight or allow one to negatively influence the other. To explore this possibility, we conducted a cluster analysis using assessments of clinical and cognitive insight among 95 adults with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder. As predicted, this analysis yielded a group with concurrently poor clinical and cognitive insight (n = 36). Additional groups were found with concurre

SUBMITTER: Mervis JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8650079 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature