Schizophrenia

Question 1

Prevalence rate

Answer 1

0.5% to 1%

Question 2

Most common age of onset

Answer 2

15-35

Question 3

Suicide risk for people with Schizophrenia

Answer 3

5%

Question 4

What percent of premature mortality is attributed to suicide

Answer 4

40%

Question 5

What does Schizophrenia cost the community

Answer 5

$20 billion

Question 6

5 main symptoms of Schizophrenia

Answer 6

Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganised speech
Disorganised or catatonic behaviour
Negative symptoms

Question 7

How many of the main schizophrenia symptoms need to be displayed to be diagnosed

Answer 7

2 or more

Question 8

What are positive symptoms

Answer 8

Behaviours that are happening too much

Question 9

What are negative symptoms

Answer 9

Behaviours that are in deficit that are not occurring as often as it should

Question 10

What is delusion

Answer 10

Involves false belief so content of thoughts is innacurate or false

Question 11

2 types of delusions

Answer 11

Delusion of Persecution - people are out to get you
Delusion of Grandeur - feeling of superiority to other people e.g. feeling of fame

Question 12

3 types of disorganised speech

Answer 12

Neologism
Word salad
Tangentiality

Question 13

Neologism

Answer 13

Person makes up a word - has no meaning and a combination of 2 words or a distortion of a word

Question 14

Word salad

Answer 14

Bunch of words tossed together that make no sense and has no meaning

Question 15

Tangentiality

Answer 15

Start talking about one topic then move to another that has no relevance and fail to move back to the original topic

Question 16

Most common sensory modality for hallucinations in people with schizophrenia

Answer 16

Auditory

Question 17

Voices that schizophrenic hear are usually

Answer 17

Negative and derogatory

Question 18

Catatonia

Answer 18

Neurogenic motor immobility manifested as stupor: where people become rigit in their movement and become immobile

Question 19

Alogia:

Answer 19

Poverty of speech. Lack of spontaneous speech which reflects impoverished thought processes

Question 20

Avolition

Answer 20

Lack of motivation and thus social withdrawal

Question 21

3 phases of schizophrenia

Answer 21

1. Prodomal
2. Active
3. Residual

Question 22

Prodromal phase

Answer 22

Decline in functioning
Negative symptoms appear
People believe its just ‘developmentally normal’
Can’t be diagnosed at this stage

Question 23

Shorter of what phase is associated with a better outcome

Answer 23

Prodromal

Question 24

Active phase

Answer 24

Positive symptoms appear.

Question 25

Dominance of what symptom compared to … tends to be a poor prognostic indicator

Answer 25

Dominance of negative compared to positive

Question 26

Residual phase

Answer 26

Positive symptoms typically have been remitted with the help of medication

Some negative ymptoms remain

Question 27

3 types of negative symptoms

Answer 27

Expression of affect or emotion,
Speech and motivation (alogia and avolition),
lack of self-care

Question 28

Odds of developing schizophrenia when first degree relative has it

Answer 28

10%

Question 29

Odds of developing schizophrenia if identical twin has it

Answer 29

50%

Question 30

What lack of neurotransmitter is associated with schizophrenia

Answer 30

Dopamine

Question 31

Diathesis stress model of schizophrenia

Answer 31

There is an underlying vulnerability that is most likely related to genetic disposition but may only convert into illness in the context of environmental stressors

Question 32

How many people improve with the use of medication

Answer 32

25%

Question 33

Other treatments of schizophrenia apart from medication

Answer 33

Psychoeducation and CBT