Comparison of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Schizophrenia with Comorbid Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Terms of Insight, Metacognitive Beliefs, and Clinical Features

Şenay O., Tükel R.

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, vol.211, no.4, pp.266-272, 2023 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 211 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2023
  • Doi Number: 10.1097/nmd.0000000000001608
  • Journal Name: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ATLA Religion Database, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, CINAHL, Educational research abstracts (ERA), EMBASE, MEDLINE, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo, Violence & Abuse Abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.266-272
  • Keywords: Insight, metacognitions, metacognitive beliefs, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia
  • Istanbul University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The aim was to compare insight levels into obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS), and metacognitions of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and with schizophrenia with comorbid OCD (SZ-OCD). Thirty OCD patients and 30 SZ-OCD patients were evaluated; no significant difference was found between the groups in the Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale (BABS) and the Metacognition Questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30). When all patients were divided into two groups regardless of the presence or absence of schizophrenia as "good insight"and "poor or no insight,"the MCQ-30 total score was found to be higher in the "poor or no insight"group and showed a significant but moderate positive correlation with the BABS score. This study supports that the level of insight into OCS in SZ-OCD is not significantly different from patients with OCD. Metacognitions differ not according to the distinction between OCD and SZ-OCD but according to the level of insight in whole OCD sample.