Palmira Rudaleviciene

Content of Delusions and Hallucinations in Schizophrenia: Religious and Socio-cultural Background. Importance of Personal Religiosity Palmira Rudaleviciene

The goal of this study was to find out and assess the content of delusions and hallucinations in the patients with schizophrenia, and to examine the impact of personal religiosity and culture on these psychotic phenomena. 1. To evaluate the impact of personal religiosity on presence and the content of religious delusions in patients with schizophrenia. 2. To evaluate the impact of personal religiosity on presence and the content of the world end (apocalyptic) delusions in patients with schizophrenia. 3. To evaluate the impact of personal religiosity on visual hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia. 4. To evaluate the impact of culture on psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia. 5. To evaluate the specificity of paranoid-hallucinatory syndromes in schizophrenia in different cultures. 6. To evaluate the prevalence of delusions of guilt in Catholic patients with schizophrenia and to compare with delusions of guilt of Muslim patients with schizophrenia.