Is psychosis in DSM-IV mania due to severity? The relevance of selected demographic and comorbid social-phobic features
Objective: We tested whether factors other than episode severity contributed to psychosis in mania. Method: Psychiatrists collected systematic clinical data on 1090 hospitalized DSM‐IV manic patients in France, and completed the Mania Rating Scale (MRS) and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2007-01, Vol.115 (1), p.29-34 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Objective: We tested whether factors other than episode severity contributed to psychosis in mania.
Method: Psychiatrists collected systematic clinical data on 1090 hospitalized DSM‐IV manic patients in France, and completed the Mania Rating Scale (MRS) and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS).
Results: Using DSM‐IV specifiers, 21.9% were non‐severe, 28.2% severe without psychosis, and 49.9% severe with psychosis. On the MRS, patients with psychosis scored significantly higher (P |
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ISSN: | 0001-690X 1600-0447 0065-1591 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2006.00841.x |