A Comparative Study of Receptive Speech among Male and Female Cases with Schizophrenic Illness

Speech disorder is increasingly understood to be a significant indicator and characteristic of schizophrenia. Abnormalities in receptive language processes are also reliably detected for patients with schizophrenia including disturbances to word perception, sentence comprehension, and semantic and syntactic processing. Thus the objective of the study was to assess receptive speech among male and female patients suffering from schizophrenia using Receptive Speech Function Scale of AIIMS comprehensive neuropsychological battery in Hindi (Adult form). Thirty patients i.e. fifteen male and fifteen female patients already diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia (as per ICD-10 DCR) were selected from outpatient and inpatient department of PGIBAMS, Raipur, through purposive sampling. The result of the study concluded that there were only significant differences found between male and female subjects on certain aspects of receptive speech like understanding of commands that involves exhibiting motor responses and to identify non-sensible words.