Body image differences between normal and schizophrenic female adults

Abstract

Case A Female schizophrenic. Thirty-five years old. Problem behaviours 1. Delusion: The patient said, 'My boyfriend set up radio equipment and 2. Hallucination: The patient said that somebody invaded her body.observed me.' She also said that she was poianed by her mother. Brief historyThe patient was born as the fourth child of a poor family. Throughout her primary

Body-Image Differences in Live-Related and Cadaver Renal Transplant Recipients

“…In addition, its 31 items could be grouped into three categories: form (body shape), function (the sense that patients are in control of their own behaviour), and other psychological elements (comprised of psychological impressions including primitive sensations, moods, and a sense of body boundaries), which seemed appropriate in assessing patients with functioning renal grafts following management for ESRD. Although the factor structure did not resemble that of Koide's (1989), the factors of the present study can be grouped into the above three categories, that is, form (Factors 4, 5), function (1, 2, 3), and other psychological elements (Factors 6, 7, 8). Body shape seems to be important with regard to organ integration among transplant recipients, and these patients also become more aware of body functions.…”

“…Furthermore, most of the traditional procedures for measuring body-image which included drawing and projective techniques, were found unsuitable for the present study primanly because of the nature of its experimental design and also for various reasons such as their subjective nature and failure to adequately define body-image. The questionnaire by Koide (1989) proved useful, because it was free of most of these difficulties. In addition, its 31 items could be grouped into three categories: form (body shape), function (the sense that patients are in control of their own behaviour), and other psychological elements (comprised of psychological impressions including primitive sensations, moods, and a sense of body boundaries), which seemed appropriate in assessing patients with functioning renal grafts following management for ESRD.…”

“…Following Koide (1989), and in line with work done by Pritchard (1974aPritchard ( , 1974bPritchard ( , 1977Pritchard ( , 1979 on response to illness, the items of the KBIQ were subjected to a factor analysis with Varimax rotation during which eight factors emerged. The purpose of the factor analysis was to check the validity of the questionnaire which was not originally designed for assessing patients with functional renal grafts.…”

“…The research design was constituted to provide qualitative data by means of a mental status examination (MSE) which incorporated a clinical interview and an open-ended self-report questionnaire (SRQ) previously published (Schlebusch et af., 1989), and post-operative quantitative data derived from the administration of a slightly modified version of Koide's Body Image Questionnaire (KBIQ) (Koide, 1989). Each patient was indwidually assessed during a routine follow-up visit to the renal unit.…”

“…In a neurological sense the aim is to assist in diagnosing and understanding brain disease, whereas in a psychopathological sense the aim is to explore relationships which are psychologically understandable (Lishman, 1987). It is in this latter sense that the concept is explored in the present study in which the definition proposed by Koide (Koide, 1989) was followed. This definition includes the patients' conscious attitudes or feelings towards their own bodies, involving both visual imagery and primitive sensations and impressions.…”