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Classification of schizophrenia Flashcards

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What is schizophrenia?

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A severe mental illness where contact with reality and insight are impaired

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What are positive symptoms?

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When something is added to normal behaviour e.g. hallucinations, delusions, laughing when you should not

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What are negative symptoms?

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When something is removed from normal behaviour e.g. not speaking in full sentences, withdrawal from family and friends, inability to show emotions, rejecting looking after hygiene

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What are delusions of persecution?

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When someone believes that someone is mistreating, conspiring against, or planning to harm them or a loved one

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What are delusions of grandeur?

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When someone believes that they have more power, wealth, smarts, or other grand traits than is true

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What is the definition for classification?

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The action or process of classifying something - a category something is put into

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What is the definition of diagnosis?

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The identification of the nature of an illness or other problems by examination of symptoms

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What are symptoms?

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Physical/mental features which are regarded as indicating a condition or disease

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What are hallucinations?

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Sensory experiences of stimuli that have no basis in reality or are distorted perceptions of things that are there

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What are delusions?

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They involve irrational beliefs that have no basis in reality

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What are the 2 types of delusions?

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• Delusions of grandeur
• Delusions of persecution

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What is avolition?

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It involves the loss of motivation to carry out tasks, difficulty to begin or keep up with a goal

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What are the 3 signs of avolition?

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• Poor hygiene
• Lack of persistence at work or education
• Lack of energy

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What is speech poverty?

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It involves reduced frequency and quality of speech, delayed in responding verbally during a conversation - known as alogia

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What are the 2 classifications of schizophrenia?

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  • ICD 10
  • DSM 5
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How is schizophrenia diagnosed using ICD 10?

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  • No positive symptoms
  • Two or more negative symptoms
  • Recognises subtypes of schizophrenia (paranoid, hebephrenic, catatonic)
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How is schizophrenia diagnosed using DSM 5?

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  • One positive symptom must be present
  • Does not recognise subtypes
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What does reliability relate to?

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If a study can be repeated/replicated

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What does validity relate to?

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If a study is measuring what is intended

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What is inter-rater reliability?

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Concerns whether different clinicians make identical, independent diagnoses of the same patient

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What is test-retest reliability?

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Concerns whether a clinician makes the same diagnosis on separate occasions from the same information

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What was Cheniaux (2009) study on the diagnosis differences of schizophrenia?

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  • 2 psychiatrists diagnose 100 patients using IDC and DSM criteria
  • Poor inter-rater reliability and criterion validity
  • 1 diagnosed 26 with DSM, 44 IDC, other 13 with DSM, 24 with IDC
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What is criterion validity?

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Assesses validity of the diagnosis - do both systems have same diagnosis for same patient?

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What is co-morbidity?

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The occurrence of 2 or more medical conditions together

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What did Buckley et al (2009) study show?

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Most patients who had schizophrenia also had another condition e.g. depression, substance abuse

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What is symptom overlap?

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Occurs when 2 or more conditions share symptoms - questions the validity of classifying the 2 disorders separately

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What was Ophoff et al (2011) study?

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  • Assessed genetic material of 50000 patients
  • 7 gene locations associated with schizophrenia, 3 of which also associated with bipolar disorder
  • Suggests genetic overlap
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What is gender bias?

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The tendency for diagnostic criteria to be applied differently to males and females

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What was Longenecker et al (2010) study?

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  • Since 1980s more men diagnosed with schizophrenia than women
  • Shows males more genetically vulnerable and females function better than men
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What is culture bias?

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The tendency to over diagnose members of other cultures suffering with schizophrenia - same symptoms but different diagnosis because of ethnic background

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