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Scale for the Assessment of Insight (SAI)

Full name of scale

Scale for the Assessment of Insight / Expanded

Languages

English, Tamil

Rater

 

Clinician-rated outcome measures

 

This measure can be rated by a multidisciplinary team. A therapist can rate all items and nursing staffs can rate the items related to the treatment compliance.

Training

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Utility

Clinical and research

 

This measure assesses insight based on the following dimensions:

  • Recognition that one is suffering from a mental illness
  • Compliance with treatment
  • Ability to relabel unusual mental events as pathological.
  • Awareness of change
  • Difficulties resulting from the psychotic condition
  • Insight into key symptoms

Time to complete

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Cost/license

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David, A., Buchanan, A., Reed, A., & Almeida, O. (1992). The assessment of insight in psychosis. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 161(5), 599–602. Follow this link for the article.

Kemp, R., & David, A. (1997). Insight and Compliance. In Chronic mental illness, Vol. 5. Treatment compliance and the therapeutic alliance. Harwood Academic Publishers.

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