Schizophrenia Research Trends

The Association of Verbal Learning Deficits with Unawareness of Mental Disorder 169Table 2 presents Spearman rank correlation coefficients between verbal memory andlearning test performance and insight scores. We found no statistically significantcorrelations between delayed recall and SUMD scores. Better immediate recall wassignificantly related only with unawareness of past mental disorder SUMD item. Betterlearning potential was significantly associated with better awareness of current mentaldisorder and both awareness of current and past achieved effects of medication.Significant correlations were found between severity of negative symptoms andawareness of current and past mental disorder and with overall awareness of current and pastsymptoms. The PANSS positive symptoms scores correlated significantly with all SUMDscores except awareness of social consequences of mental disorder (see Table 3).Table 3. Spearman Rank Correlations between Severity of Symptoms, Illness Duration,and Insight Scores (n=27)SUMDPANSSnegativePANSSpositiveGeneral itemsAwareness of mental disorder: current .53 f .56 g .24Awareness of mental disorder: past .33 a .69 i .20Awareness of effects of medication: current .14 .55 g .39 cAwareness of effects of medication: past .22 .73 i .50 eAwareness of social consequences: current .29 .26 .00Awareness of social consequences: past .31 .29 .08Overall scoresSymptoms awareness: current .50 e .77 i .29Symptoms awareness: past .44 d .71 i .36 bSymptoms attribution: current (n=23) .19 .46 d .40 cSymptoms attribution: past (n=24) .32 .62 h .27one-tailed; a p