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Subjective awareness of tardive dyskinesia and insight in schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

R. Emsley ,
D.J.H. Niehaus ,
P.P. Oosthuizen ,
L. Koen ,
B. Chiliza  and
D. Fincham
R. Emsley*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, Cape Town, South Africa
P.P. Oosthuizen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, Cape Town, South Africa
L. Koen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, Cape Town, South Africa
B. Chiliza
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, Cape Town, South Africa
D. Fincham
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, Cape Town, South Africa
*
*Corresponding author. Tel.: +27 21 9389227; fax: +27 21 9389738. E-mail address: rae@sun.ac.za (R. Emsley).
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Abstract

Background

Lack of awareness of tardive dyskinesia (TD) and poor insight into mental illness are common in schizophrenia, raising the possibility that these phenomena are manifestations of a common underlying dysfunction.

Methods

We investigated relationships between low awareness of TD and poor insight into mental illness in 130 patients with schizophrenia and TD. We also examined selected demographic and clinical correlates of these two phenomena.

Results

Sixty-six (51%) patients had no or low awareness of TD and 94 (72%) had at least mild impairment of insight into their mental illness. Low awareness of TD was not significantly correlated with greater impairment of insight into mental illness. Regression analyses indicated that the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) disorganised factor (β = 0.72, t = 11.88, p < 0.01) accounted for 52% of the variance in insight into mental illness (adjusted R2 = 0.55) (F[2, 127] = 81.00, p < 0.01) and the Extrapyramidal Symptom Rating Scale (ESRS) dyskinesia subscale score (β = 0.47, t = 6.80, p < 0.01), PANSS disorganised factor (β = −0.26, t = −3.73, p < 0.01), and ESRS parkinsonism subscale score (β = 0.31, t = 4.55, p < 0.01) together accounted for 37% of the variance in awareness of TD (adjusted R2 = 0.37) (F[3, 126] = 26.87, p < 0.01).

Conclusion

The two phenomena appear to be dissociated, and may be domain-specific.

Keywords

InsightSchizophreniaTardive dyskinesiaPsychopathology
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Original article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , August 2011 , pp. 293 - 296
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Copyright © Elsevier Masson SAS 2011

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