schizophrenia

Question 1

what is the ratio of schizophrenics in the world

Answer 1

1/100

Question 2

where is schizophrenia more likely to be diagnosed

Answer 2

city side rather than countryside

Question 3

in which gender is schizophrenia more likely

Answer 3

men

Question 4

what is the definition of psychosis

Answer 4

is when you struggle to distinguish what is real and what is not

Question 5

what is the main symptom of schizophrenia

Answer 5

auditory hallucinations

Question 6

what is a positive symptom

Answer 6

a positive symptom is when something is added that a schizophrenic has and a normal person does not have

Question 7

what is a negative symptom

Answer 7

a negative symptom is when something is lost that a schizophrenic does not have which the general population does

Question 8

is a delusion a positive or a negative symptom

Answer 8

positive

Question 9

is speech poverty a positive or a negative symptom

Answer 9

negative

Question 10

is avolition a positive or a negative symptom

Answer 10

negative

Question 11

are hallucinations a positive or a negative symptom

Answer 11

positive

Question 12

what are the different types of delusions?

Answer 12

delusion of grandeur and delusion of persecution

Question 13

what is a delusion of grandeur

Answer 13

is when you live in the idea that you are something big . For example believing to be the chosen one by god for a certain thing

Question 14

what is a delusion of persecution

Answer 14

the belief that someone is after you and is trying to hurt you

Question 15

what is another way to describe speech poverty

Answer 15

disorgnaised speech

Question 16

what are the different types of hallucinations

Answer 16

Hallucinations can happen with all the 5 senses; so tactile, auditory, hearing, smelling and tasting

Question 17

how can we diagnose schizophrenia

Answer 17

to diagnose schizophrenia we need to have rather DSM V (5) or ICD 10 as diagnosis tools.

Question 18

what do you need to diagnose someone with schizophrenia using DSM V ?

Answer 18

we need to see a positive symptom

Question 19

what do you need to diagnose someone with schizophrenia using ICD 10 ?

Answer 19

we need to see two negative symptoms

Question 20

what does ICD 10 do that DSM V does not

Answer 20

ICD 10 states that there are more than one type of schizophrenia such as paranoid, catatonic and hebephrenic

Question 21

what is catatonic schizophrenia

Answer 21

this is when people freeze and do not move

Question 22

what is hebephrenic schizophrenia

Answer 22

this is when you feel things

Question 23

what is a weakness to schizophrenia

Answer 23

The diagnosis method has very low validity as the two different books give different diagnosis and do not work the same

Question 24

talk about Cheneaux et al (2009)

Answer 24

in this study two psychiatrists used both DSM V and ICD 10 to diagnose 100 people

Question 25

what were the results of people diagnosed with schizophrenia by the first psychologists with both of the books

Answer 25

DSM V- 26
ICD 10 - 44

Question 26

what were the results of people diagnosed with schizophrenia by the second psychologists with both of the books

Answer 26

DSM V- 13
ICD 10- 24

Question 27

what are the study’s validity and reliability

Answer 27

the study has low inter-rater reliability and low validity

Question 28

what is citation validity

Answer 28

is when we ask ourselves if the assessments arrive at the same diagnosis by the same person