title: [Clinical, prognostic, and preventive significance of "premorbid" psychic states in adolescents and youths (observational study)].
abstract: This paper presents results of observational, clinico-epidemiological, and catamnestic studies including 856 adolescents and youths attending schools, professional and higher education institutions in Moscow. The data are analysed in terms of the prevalence, structure, and dynamics of different borderline psychic states depending on age. The frequency of "premorbid" psychic abnormalities in adolescents is shown to be 52.6% compared with 15.46% in youths. It is argued that subclinical psychic disorders in adolescents have more favourable prognosis and should be regarded as adaptive reactions to the processes associated with physiological pubertal crisis. Recommendations are proposed for differential primary and secondary prophylaxis of age-related premorbid psychic states.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Chubarovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity / Q000639:trends; D019370:Observation; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012307:Risk Factors; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult