[Prognosis in delusional psychoses: comparison of prognostic value of schizophrenia by six diagnostic criteria].
A group of 107 patients with diagnosis of syndromological dilusional psychosis underwent a catamnestic examination after 11.2 years from contracting the disease (8.7 years after the first hospitalization). During the first hospitalization with application of different criteria, the dependence of the early (clinical improvement after the first hospitalization) and late stages of the disease, qualified on the basis of catamnesis (intensification of the residual complex, life functioning, hospitalization intensity) on nosological qualification of disorders (schizophrenia vs no-schizophrenia) was analysed. It was concluded that the prognostisity of the course of illness depended in negligible degree on the kind of applied criteria. Of greater prognostic value, however, were the criteria in case of which diagnosis of schizophrenia depended, from the very beginning, on meeting the conditions formulated either directly (DSM-III-R) or indirectly (AS, VRC) of illness chronisity.
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I Kliniki Psychiatrycznej Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii, Warszawie.
D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors