the relation between metacognitive beliefs and mild neurological with positive and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia

Background:schizophrenia is one of the most important mental disorders that in comparison with other mental disorders, leaves the most devastating effect on person’s life and social health. objectives:in this research we determinerelationship between metacognitive beliefs and mild neurological symptoms with positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. patients and methods:this was a correlation type study conducted on80 patients with schizophrenia were randomly selected among patients who referred to fatemi and isaar hospitals in ardebil, iran from 2013 to 2014.meta-cognitive impairment and mild neurological soft sing were measured with meta-cognitive questionnaire test and neurological soft symptoms respectively and positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia were measured with positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia test too. results:the average and standard deviation of meta-cognitive beliefs were x=74/54, sd=14/32 respectively, the average and standard deviation of mild neurological soft symptoms were x=19/93, sd=8/26 respectively, the average and standard deviation of positive symptoms were x=49/55, sd=7/27 respectively, and the average and standard deviation of negative symptoms were x=46/76, sd=6/34 respectively. meta-cognitive beliefs with positive symptoms (r=0.41) and negative symptoms (r=0.33) has a meaningful positive correlation (p <% 1) but any meaningful relation between mild neurological symptoms and positive and negative symptoms was not found. conclusions:the results of this study indicated that meta cognitive beliefs with positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia have a meaningful relation, but there is no relation between the weak neurological symptoms and positive and negative symptoms.