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.

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

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