Mental capacity, insight, and severity of illness in psychiatric in-patients: A prospective study
Insight appears to be the best discriminator for capacity status for psychotic disorders, bipolar disorders, and SUDs. Presence of delirium, catatonia, and intoxication reflect obvious lack of capacity; while absent insight, BPRS >31, psychotic and bipolar disorders suggest significant association with incapacity. Effective treatment improves capacity and insight earlier in persons with SUDs and bipolar disorders than psychotic disorders.
Authors
- Ranganath R. Kulkarni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9804-492X)
- Swapna A. Pandurangi
- Nguiessan Alphonse Aman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4325-6546)
- Pratibha R. Kulkarni
Institutions
- Institute of Mental Health (IN)
- SDM College of Medical Science and Hospital (IN)
- Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad (IN)
- Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
Publication Details
- Journal
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-01-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_977_24
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.94