title: [Retrospective analysis of psychopathological presentation of psychotic episodes in adolescent inpatients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Analysis of a clinical presentation and course of psychotic episodes in adolescent inpatients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective analysis of charts of all (n=104) inpatients diagnosed with one of the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (schizophrenia, schizotypal disorder and acute and transient psychotic disorders: F20, F21 and F23 according to ICD-10) and assessed with the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) over a 10-year period (1998-2008) in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department. A psychopathological profile of different disorders and correlation between symptoms and demographic and clinical data were analysed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Severity of symptoms correlated with length of hospitalisation. In schizophrenia higher PANSS total score and more severe some general symptoms then in schizotypal disorders were observed. Also in schizophrenia more negative symptoms then in acute and transient psychotic disorders were detected. In all three disorders, the psychopathological profile included negative symptoms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In schizophrenia psychopathological symptoms were more severe than in other disorders. Presence of negative symptoms may indicate that all schizophrenia spectrum disorders may have a neurodevelopmental component.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Psychiatrii Dzieci i Młodziezy IPiN w Warszawie.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Remberk
authors.forename: Bozena
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bogumił
authors.forename: Zofia
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bronowska
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Namysłowska
authors.forename: Paweł
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Potocki
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index