PSYCHOSIS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED - CHANGE OF DIAGNOSIS AT FIVE YEAR FOLLOW -UP

A five-year follow-up study of 38 patients with ‘psychosis not otherwise specified’ revealed that diagnostic change occurred in 34.2% of the patients. 15.8% of the patients developed schizophrenia and 18.4% developed affective disorders. The initial diagnosis was retained in 65.8% of the patients. T...

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Autores principales: Sivakumar, V., Chandrasekaran, R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743614
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description A five-year follow-up study of 38 patients with ‘psychosis not otherwise specified’ revealed that diagnostic change occurred in 34.2% of the patients. 15.8% of the patients developed schizophrenia and 18.4% developed affective disorders. The initial diagnosis was retained in 65.8% of the patients. The onset of the illness was acute in patients from rural background and this is statistically significant. 42% of the patients presented only catatonic signs, of which nearly 70% showed full recovery.
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spelling pubmed-29784642011-07-08 PSYCHOSIS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED - CHANGE OF DIAGNOSIS AT FIVE YEAR FOLLOW -UP Sivakumar, V. Chandrasekaran, R. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A five-year follow-up study of 38 patients with ‘psychosis not otherwise specified’ revealed that diagnostic change occurred in 34.2% of the patients. 15.8% of the patients developed schizophrenia and 18.4% developed affective disorders. The initial diagnosis was retained in 65.8% of the patients. The onset of the illness was acute in patients from rural background and this is statistically significant. 42% of the patients presented only catatonic signs, of which nearly 70% showed full recovery. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2978464/ /pubmed/21743614 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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PSYCHOSIS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED - CHANGE OF DIAGNOSIS AT FIVE YEAR FOLLOW -UP
title PSYCHOSIS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED - CHANGE OF DIAGNOSIS AT FIVE YEAR FOLLOW -UP
title_full PSYCHOSIS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED - CHANGE OF DIAGNOSIS AT FIVE YEAR FOLLOW -UP
title_fullStr PSYCHOSIS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED - CHANGE OF DIAGNOSIS AT FIVE YEAR FOLLOW -UP
title_full_unstemmed PSYCHOSIS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED - CHANGE OF DIAGNOSIS AT FIVE YEAR FOLLOW -UP
title_short PSYCHOSIS NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED - CHANGE OF DIAGNOSIS AT FIVE YEAR FOLLOW -UP
title_sort psychosis not otherwise specified - change of diagnosis at five year follow -up
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743614
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