title: [Clinical Characteristics of Malingering Among Arrested and Convicted Male Cases That are Sent for Treatment].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study is done to investigate the predictive variables of malingering among arrested/convicted cases and the clinical characteristics of malingerers.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study includes 70 arrested/convicted male cases internalized for their treatment. Aform to collect clinical or sociodemografic data, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Disorders (SCID I), Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID II), Symptom Check-list (SCL-90-R) and Rey Memory Test (RMT) are applied. Two independent psychiatrists, without being part of the study diagnosed malingering.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Arrested cases reported mostly psychotic like and convicted cases mostly depression like symptoms. RMT is helpful by malingering and SCL-90-R psychotic symptom and paranoid symptom subscale scores were both correlated negatively when compared to the RMT scores by malingerers. Axis-I or Axis-II diagnosis were found out to be more predictive than other clinical variables to determine malingering.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study indicate that clinicians have to take malingering into account especially by arrested and convicted cases applied for treatment and they have to be careful by doing the differential diagnosis. Large sample studies conducted with arrested and convicted cases and surveys by grouping cases according to the expertise and treatment services may provide additional data related to malingering.
authors.forename: Mehmet Can
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Ger
authors.forename: Nihan Diğdem
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Ljohıy
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Öncü
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Keyvan
authors.forename: Güliz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Özgen
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Türkcan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners; D011594:Psychometrics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult