Exploring the "Insight Paradox" in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: Correlations Between Dimensions of Insight and Depressive Symptoms in Patients Receiving Clozapine.
Süleyman DönmezlerGizem İskenderNurhan FıstıkcıYavuz AltunkaynakSevinç UlusoyTonguç Demir BerkolPublished in: Alpha psychiatry (2023)
The treatment compliance part of insight was not one of the significant explanatory variables of depressive symptoms, but it explained the variance in functioning, in contrast to the illness recognition dimension of insight. If our findings were replicated in treatment-resistant schizophrenia, they would suggest that promoting treatment compliance dimension of insight instead of recognition of illness could not increase depressive symptoms.