Cognitive distortion among psychiatric patients

Abstract

The aim of the current study was to identify the level of cognitive distortions
among the patients suffering from psychiatric disorder according to age, gender
and educational qualification. Cross sectional survey method was followed,
using Bangladesh Cognitive Distortion Scale (BCDS, Siddika and Chowdhury,
2013) on 239 patients, suffering from anxiety and depression for assessing
cognitive distortion. Among the psychiatric patients 86.2% respondents found to
have clinical level of cognitive distortion. Analysis revealed that there is no
significant difference in cognitive distortion according to different age groups
and gender. But regarding educational qualification, there is significant
difference of total score of Bangladesh cognitive distortion scale (p > 0.01) and it
is higher among low literate respondents (non institutional to class 5) than high
literate.