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Differences in Handwritings of Schizophrenia Patients and Examination of the Change after Treatment
Author(s) -
Kömür İlhami,
Gürler Ahmet Selçuk,
Başpınar Bünyamin,
Şahin Esat,
Kantarcı Muhammet Nabi,
Emül Murat,
Kandemir Eyüp,
Akın Hacı Mehmet,
Üner Hüseyin Bülent
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of forensic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1556-4029
pISSN - 0022-1198
DOI - 10.1111/1556-4029.12858
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , handwriting , incidence (geometry) , medicine , psychology , audiology , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , physics , optics
The aim of this study was to analyze the differences between the handwritings of schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects in addition to the changes that occurred in schizophrenia patients' handwriting in response to the treatment. The test subjects were 29 schizophrenia patients and 29 healthy individuals with the same age, gender, and dominant hand. The changes in the handwritings were examined according to 14 different parameters. On the day of admittance, the percentage of extra letters was 16.7%, and after 7–10 days of hospitalization, it rose to 33.3%. The percentage of skipped words decreased from 29.2% to 16.7% after 7–10 days of hospitalization, and to 10% after 3 weeks. The letters written by schizophrenia patients are significantly larger in height and width compared to the control group. The schizophrenia patients showed a higher incidence of crossed‐out letters, adding extra words, missing punctuation as well as missing words.