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| Title |
Correlations Between Awareness of Illness (Insight) and History of Addiction in Heroin-Addicted Patients
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychiatry, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00061 |
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| Authors |
Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani, Luca Rovai, Fabio Rugani, Matteo Pacini, Francesco Lamanna, Silvia Bacciardi, Giulio Perugi, Joseph Deltito, Liliana Dell’Osso, Icro Maremmani |
| Abstract |
In a group of 1066 heroin addicts, who were seeking treatment for opioid agonist treatment, we looked for differences in historical, demographic, and clinical characteristics, between patients with different levels of awareness of illness (insight). The results showed that, in the cohort studied, a majority of subjects lacked insight into their heroin-use behavior. Compared with the impaired-insight group, those who possessed insight into their illness showed significantly greater awareness of past social, somatic, and psychopathological impairments, and had a greater number of past treatment-seeking events for heroin addiction. In contrast with other psychiatric illnesses, the presence of awareness appears to be related to the passing of time and to the worsening of the illness. Methodologies to improve the insight of patients should, therefore, be targeted more directly on patients early in their history of heroin dependence, because the risk of lack of insight is greatest during this period. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 83% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 36 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 36 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 22% |
| Researcher | 6 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 2 | 6% |
| Unknown | 9 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 25% |
| Psychology | 5 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 3% |
| Mathematics | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 14% |
| Unknown | 12 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 January 2019.
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#7,171,608
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#3,096
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#67,815
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