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Predicting features of later development of schizophrenia among patients with acute and transient psychotic disorder.
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2005 April
It is acknowledged that a considerable proportion of patients who have an episode of acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD), will develop schizophrenia after the episode is remitted. If features discriminating the patients who later developed schizophrenia from those who underwent a monomorphous ATPD-only course are discerned, they may be useful for predicting the prognosis. The authors performed a chart review study of those who were hospitalized with the diagnosis of ATPD and followed up thereafter for >5 years and compared two subject groups: 10 later-schizophrenia-developing (SD) patients and 15 non-schizophrenia-developing (non-SD) patients. Assessment of the subjects, conducted by two psychiatrist raters blind to the subject groups, included frequency of ATPD episodes, adaptation levels and life events before admission, and psychiatric symptoms before and after admission. The interrater reliability of the assessment proved to be favorable. As a result, early recurrence of psychotic episodes in the follow-up period, lack of acute upsurge of insomnia in an early phase of the episode and poor premorbid heterosexual relations characterized the SD patients. The result indicated heterogeneity of ATPD episodes.
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