| Summary: | INTRODUCTION[|]The relationship between psychotic symptoms and insight is repeatedly shown. Studies intended to present the relationship between insight and psychosis are mostly conducted on psychotic disorders. However, knowledge about psychotic experiences (PEs) and insight is limited for non-psychotic disorders, like depression. It was aimed to compare patients with non-psychotic depression and healthy controls in terms of insight and investigate the relationship between insight and PEs. [¤]METHODS[|]49 patients with depression and 42 healthy controls were included. Sociodemographic Data Form, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), Beck Anxiety Inventory(BAI), Self-reflection and Insight Scale (SRIS), Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE42) and Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS) were applied to participants. [¤]RESULTS[|]Levels of PEs were significantly higher and levels of SRIS insight subscale were lower in patients with depression than healthy controls. There were significant negative correlations between SRIS insight subscale and levels of PEs. Levels of PEs were predicted by scores of HAM-D, BAI and SRIS insight subscale, but BAI was the only variable which maintained significance in multiple regression analysis.[¤]DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION[|]Patients with non-psychotic depression could manifest impaired insight and a mild form of psychotic features and there is a relationship between these two psychiatric phenomena.[¤]
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