title: Intellectual assessment of young adult chronic patients.
abstract: At Rockland Psychiatric Center 60 newly admitted (and readmitted) young adult chronic patients were given tests of intellectual functioning and academic achievement three weeks after admission. The majority of these patients (83 percent) had below-normal IQs and more than half were found to be functionally illiterate. The authors point out that such patients require intensive socialization training and remedial education if they are to survive in the community.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*