Journal article
Evaluation of Dream Content among Patients with Schizophrenia, their Siblings, Patients with Psychiatric Diagnoses other than Schizophrenia, and Healthy Control
Iranian journal of psychiatry, Vol.7(1), pp.26-30
2012
PMCID: PMC3395964
PMID: 23056114
Abstract
Objective: Schizophrenia is a chronic psychotic disorder with unknown etiology that causes cognitive impairment, affecting thinking, behavior, social function, sleep and dream content. This study considered the dream content of patients with schizophrenia, siblings of patients with schizophrenia, patients with psychiatric diagnoses other than schizophrenia, and a group of healthy controls. The aim of this study was to compare the dream content of patients with schizophrenia with dream content of individuals with other mental disorders, first degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia, and community controls.
Method: Seventy-two patients were selected and placed in 4 groups. The first group consisted of 18 inpatients with schizophrenia whose medications were stable for at least four weeks; the second group consisted of 16 nonpsychotic mentally ill inpatients; the third group consisted of 18 individuals who were siblings of patients with schizophrenia; and the fourth group consisted of 20 healthy individuals in the community with no family history of mental or somatic disorders. The four groups were matched by age and gender. A 14-item dream content questionnaire was administered for all the participants, and the Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale (PANSS) was also administered for the two groups of hospitalized patients.
Results: Results showed that there were significant differences in dream content among groups included friends acquaintances, females and colorful components. No significant differences were found between the positive and negative subscales of PANSS and any of the dream questionnaire subscales.
Conclusion: Our results suggest that there were a few changes in the dream content of the patients with schizophrenia compare to other groups.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evaluation of Dream Content among Patients with Schizophrenia, their Siblings, Patients with Psychiatric Diagnoses other than Schizophrenia, and Healthy Control
- Creators
- Habibolah Khazaie - University of Alabama at BirminghamMasoud Tahmasian - University of Alabama at BirminghamGolrokh Younesi - University of Alabama at BirminghamDavid C Schwebel - University of Alabama at BirminghamMansour Rezaei - University of Alabama at BirminghamLeeba Rezaie - University of Alabama at BirminghamMehrak Mohamadi - University of Alabama at BirminghamArezo Ghanbari - University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Iranian journal of psychiatry, Vol.7(1), pp.26-30
- PMID
- 23056114
- PMCID
- PMC3395964
- NLM abbreviation
- Iran J Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 1735-4587
- eISSN
- 2008-2215
- Publisher
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Number of pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- Research Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984949466602771
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