PMID- 16211608
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060803
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 0885-3185 (Print)
IS  - 0885-3185 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 3
DP  - 2006 Mar
TI  - Huntington's disease patients have selective problems with insight.
PG  - 385-9
AB  - The objective of this study was to determine insight in patients with 
      Huntington's disease (HD) by contrasting patients' ability to rate their own 
      behavior with their ability to rate a person other than themselves. HD patients 
      and carers completed the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX), rating themselves and 
      each other at two time points. The temporal stability of these ratings was 
      initially examined using these two time points since there is no published 
      test-retest reliability of the DEX with this population to date. This was 
      followed by a comparison of patients' self-ratings and carer's independent 
      ratings of patients by performing correlations with patients' disease variables, 
      and an exploratory factor analysis was conducted on both sets of ratings. The DEX 
      showed good test-retest reliability, with patients consistently and persistently 
      underestimating the degree of their dysexecutive behavior, but not that of their 
      carers. Patients' self-ratings and carers' ratings of patients both showed that 
      dysexecutive behavior in HD can be fractionated into three underlying components 
      (Cognition, Self-regulation, Insight), and the relative ranking of these factors 
      was similar for both data sets. HD patients consistently underestimated the 
      extent of only their own dysexecutive behaviors relative to carers' ratings by 
      26%, but were similar in ascribing ranks to the components of dysexecutive 
      behavior.
CI  - (c) 2005 Movement Disorder Society.
FAU - Ho, Aileen K
AU  - Ho AK
AD  - School of Psychology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom. 
      aileenho@netscape.net
FAU - Robbins, Anna O G
AU  - Robbins AO
FAU - Barker, Roger A
AU  - Barker RA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Mov Disord
JT  - Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society
JID - 8610688
SB  - IM
MH  - Cognition Disorders/diagnosis/*epidemiology
MH  - Depression/diagnosis/epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Huntington Disease/*epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Neuropsychological Tests
MH  - Quality of Life/psychology
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
MH  - Social Control, Informal
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2005/10/08 09:00
MHDA- 2006/08/04 09:00
CRDT- 2005/10/08 09:00
PHST- 2005/10/08 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/08/04 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/10/08 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/mds.20739 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mov Disord. 2006 Mar;21(3):385-9. doi: 10.1002/mds.20739.