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A comparative study on schizophrenia diagnosed by ICD‐9 and DSM‐III: Course, family history and stability of diagnosis
Author(s) -
Hwu H. G.,
Chen C. C.,
Strauss J. S.,
Tan K. L.,
Tsuang M. T.,
Tseng W. S.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1988.tb05083.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , family history , icd 10 , psychology , psychosis , mood disorders , mood , clinical psychology , medicine , anxiety
— Data from the Taipei Center of the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia were reanalyzed using the ICD‐9 and DSM‐III diagnoses at 7‐year follow‐up. Patients diagnosed as schizophrenic according to DSM‐III were shown to be a more homogeneous group in terms of their clinical manifestations, social functions and family psychiatric history than those defined as schizophrenic by ICD‐9. The discordant cases of ICD‐9 schizophrenia and DSM‐III affective disorders were found to be different from the concordant schizophrenic group, but similar to the concordant group of affective disorders diagnosed by ICD‐9 and DSM‐III. Thirty‐five per cent of mood‐incongruent psychotic major depressive disorders defined by DSM‐III at initial evaluation were diagnosed as schizophrenia at 7‐year follow‐up.