Self-Referencing Bias in Psychiatric Inpatients

Launched by BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY · Jul 10, 2019

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ClinConnect Summary

Objectives. The principal objective of this project is to find out whether common mental health problems result in altered self-referencing bias/advantage. The investigators will use a simple computer test to measure the strength of the self-referencing bias.

The project will also explore whether common mental health problems could be partially indexed by deviations from the commonly observed self-referencing bias. If a deviation from the bias can form a reliable index, the investigators will also look at how the measure helps to harness other existing diagnostic methods for mental health ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patient group
• • Being admitted to an acute psychiatric ward and have at least one psychiatric diagnosis such as mood disorder, anxiety disorder, psychotic disorder or personality disorder.
• • Control group
• • Age, gender, education matched
• • No mental health issues
• • Both groups
• • Have normal or corrected to normal visual function
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patient group
• • Unable to give informed consent due to impaired mental capacity
• • Currently involved in clinical trials.
• • Both groups
• • Outside of stated age range.
• • Have impaired visual function.
• • Non-English speakers.
• • Dementia.