Assessing cognitive insight in nonpsychiatric individuals and outpatients with schizophrenia in Taiwan: An investigation using the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kao, Yu Chen ^a   Wang, Tzong Shi ^b   Lu, Chien Wen ^a   Liu, Yia Ping ^c  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bcis; Cognitive insight; Self certainty; Self reflectiveness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK COGNITIVE INSIGHT SCALE; COGNITION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 80054757541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-170     Document Type: Article

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