title: Discriminators between neurotics who die and neurotics who live.
abstract: An increased death rate has been found in patients treated in hospital for neurosis but the reasons for this are not known. A case note study is described in which 37 patients who were treated in hospital for neurosis and subsequently died are compared with a cross-matched sample of treated neurotics who were alive at follow-up. Measures believed to indicate greater severity of neurosis were found to be significantly higher in the experimental (dead) group than in the control (living) group.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality*; D010551:Personality; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012649:Self Concept