Symptom Patterns among Chronic Schizophrenic In-patients
- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 133 (2) , 176-178
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.133.2.176
Abstract
Summary: The Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory (DSSI) was administered to 33 chronic non-paranoid schizophrenic patients resident on long-stay wards. It was found that the vast majority of cases (81 per cent) produced symptom patterns conforming to the hierarchy of classes of personal illness model, but with a radically different distribution among the classes from that in acutely ill patients. Within the model a half of the patients were allotted to the two lowest classes—Class 0 (Symptom-free) and Class 1 (Dysthymic States). When each set of items was considered separately and independently of the model, it was found that a half of the group professed to have recently experienced delusions. Affective states and depressive symptoms were reported by over a third of the patients.Keywords
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