Is lack of insight associated with physically aggressive behavior among people with schizophrenia living in the community?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-66

  Lincoln, Tania Marie ^a,c   Hodgins, Sheilagh ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Insight; Positive symptoms; Psychopathy; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; AWARENESS; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMORBIDITY; CRIME; DELUSIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HALLUCINATIONS; HOMICIDE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SICK ROLE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 38349013538     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31815faa4d     Document Type: Article

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