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A01 classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia Flashcards

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A01

What are the common misconceptions of schizophrenia

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That schizophrenics have split personality ir a multiple personality

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What is schizophrenia

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A severe mental disorder characterised by a profound disruption of cognition and emotion

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What are the 2 section for the issues of clarification and diagnosis of schizophrenia

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Reliability and validity

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How can you measure reliability in terms of schizophrenia

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Inter rater reliability and test retest reliability

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What is inter rate reliability

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Whether two independent assessors give similar diagnoses

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What is teat retest reliability

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Whether tests used to deliver these diagnoses are consistent over time

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What is the classification system for psychiatric disorder that was introduced in 1980

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DSM-III

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Role of DSM-III in inter rater reliability

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It’s a new classification system

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A02

Who tested inter rater reliability

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Carson

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What did Carson fo and find

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Reviewed the success of DSM-III

It fixed the problem of inter rater reliability

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Overall what is the inter rate reliability like?

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They had a reliable classification system that led to much agreement over who did and who didn’t have schizo

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What is RBANS?

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A cognitive screening test used in the diagnosis of schizo

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A02

Who studied test retest reliability

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Wilks et al

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What did wilks et al do/find

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Found the test retest reliability of RBANS test high at a correlation of .84

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Overall what is the test retest reliability like

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Good, RBANS is a good enough test reliable for classification and diagnosis of schizo

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What is validity

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Refers to the ability for a test to measure what it wants to measure

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What is reliability

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Refers to the consistency of a measuring instruments
Questionnaire
Scale etc

18
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Who studied comorbidity

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Buckley et al

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What did Buckley et al do /find

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Comorbidity depression occurs in 50% of patients

20
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What is comorbidity

Example

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Refers to the extent that 2 or more condition cooccur

Anxiety abd/or depression
With schizophrenia

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Overall what can you conclude from comorbidity

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That due to high levels of comorbidity
It created difficulties in the diagnosis of schizo
Decreases validity

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Who tested whether positive or that negative symptoms were more useful for diagnosis

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Klosterkotter et al

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What did klosterkotter do/find

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Assessed admission to a psychiatric unit
Found positive symptoms more useful for diagnosis than negative symptoms
This decreases validity

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