[Acute psychotic episode in adolescence: predictive elements of mood disorder progression].
OBJECTIVE
Our aim is to try to determine predictors of an evolution to mood disorder during a first psychotic episode in adolescence.


METHODS
We proceed with a retrospective study concerning 21 patients having developed a first psychotic episode in adolescence, and admitted in our service within the period from 1991 to 1996, with a follow up of 2 to 7 years. 8 of them, were diagnosed bipolar disorder meeting the criteria of the DSM IV, the other were diagnosed schizophrenic disorder the two groups of patients we have compared. (Fisher test)


RESULTS
The predictors of mood disorder evolution seems to be: An acute onset, a good quality of social integration before the onset of troubles and a thymic exaltation, logorrhea.
Bouden
A
A
Service de Pédopsychiatrie, Hôpital Razi, Manouba, Tunis.
Dorra
B
B
Naouefel
G
G
Ghazi
D
D
Leila
B A
BA
Halayam
M B
MB
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D017668:Age of Onset; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*