Differential associations of cognitive insight components with pretreatment characteristics in first-episode psychosis
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César González-Blanch1, Mario Álvarez-Jiménez2, Rosa Ayesa-Arriola3
1Psychiatry Research Unit of Cantabria, IFIMAV, University Hospital "Marqués de Valdecilla", Santander, Spain.
Abstract:
An increasing number of studies have focused on cognitive insight (i.e. awareness of one's own thinking) in psychotic disorders. However, little is known about the premorbid and pretreatment correlates of cognitive insight in the early course of psychosis. One hundred and three patients experiencing first-episode psychosis (FEP) were assessed shortly after treatment initiation for cognitive insight. Pretreatment and baseline clinical, functional and neurocognitive characteristics were examined. The self-reflectiveness dimension of cognitive insight was independently associated with clinical insight and executive functioning, whereas self-certainty was associated with premorbid IQ, premorbid academic adjustment and clinical insight. The amount of variance explained by the independent variables was small to moderate. Self-reflectiveness and self-certainty have differential pretreatment correlates in FEP and may reflect separate cognitive processes which require targeted interventions.
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