The Relation between Metacognitive Beliefs and Mild Neurological With Positive and Negative Symptoms in Patients with Schizophrenia

Background:Schizophrenia is one of the most important mental disorders that in comparison with other mentaldisorders, leaves the most devastating effect on person’s life and social health.Objectives:In this research we determinerelationship between metacognitive beliefs and mild neurologicalsymptoms with positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.Patients and Methods:This was a correlation type study conducted on80 patients with Schizophrenia wererandomly selected among patients who referred to Fatemi and Isaar hospitals in Ardebil, Iran from 2013 to2014.Meta-cognitive impairment and mild neurological soft sing were measured with meta-cognitive questionnairetest and neurological soft symptoms respectively and positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia weremeasured with positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia test too.Results:The average and standard deviation of meta-cognitive beliefs were x=74/54, SD=14/32 respectively, theaverage and standard deviation of mild neurological soft symptoms were x=19/93, SD=8/26 respectively, theaverage and standard deviation of positive symptoms were x=49/55, SD=7/27 respectively, and the average andstandard deviation of negative symptoms were x=46/76, SD=6/34 respectively. Meta-cognitive beliefs with positivesymptoms (R=0.41) and negative symptoms (R=0.33) has a meaningful positive correlation (p <% 1) but anymeaningful relation between mild neurological symptoms and positive and negative symptoms was not found.Conclusions:The results of this study indicated that Meta cognitive beliefs with positive and negative symptoms ofschizophrenia have a meaningful relation, but there is no relation between the weak neurological symptoms andpositive and negative symptoms.

Keywords:

Schizophrenia , Meta-cognition , Meta-cognitive test questionnaire , Soft signs of neurological tests , Neurological symptoms