title: [Life change events preceding acute psychiatric diseases].
abstract: A sample of 112 psychiatric inpatients were examined in comparison to 70 somatic inpatients with respect to the question, how frequent psychiatric diseases were in correlation with stressful life-events. There were significant discrepancies concerning life-event stress between the diagnostic subgroups. The life-event stress was most important in the neurotic patients, also patients suffering from endogenous psychoses, especially schizophrenics, showed an increased life-event stress. Different methods (objective stress scores suggested by Paykel, self-rating scores concerning negative experiences, and a synthesis between these two methods) led to similar results. Experiences, rated positive by the patients, showed no correlation with psychiatric diseases.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012306:Risk; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
vernacular_title: Einschneidende Lebensereignisse im Vorfeld von akuten psychischen Erkrankungen.