The Incidence of Personality Disturbances and their Relation to Age, Rank and Duration of Hospitalization in Patients with Medical and Surgical Disorders in a Military Hospital*
- 1 January 1947
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Psychosomatic Medicine
- Vol. 9 (1) , 45-49
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006842-194701000-00005
Abstract
Patients were classified according to neurotic potential on the basis of their score on the Cornell Service Index. A score of 23 or more significant responses was taken as evidence of high neurotic potential. It was found that a higher percentage, 33%, of white patients had high neurotic potential manifested by scores of 23 or more on the Index than did troops on duty (22%) from whom these patients were drawn. For Negro troops these figures are 50% and 36%. Thirty-three % of white privates and privates first-class had scores above 22 and 17% of non-commissioned officers had such scores. For Negro patients, these figures are 50% and 24%. In patients with medical and surgical disorders, those with high neurotic potential had an avg. duration of hospitalization 12% greater than those without.Keywords
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