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Delusional disorders
Author(s) -
Opjordsmoen S.
Publication year - 1989
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.1600-0447.1989.tb03033.x
Subject(s) - delusional disorder , schizoaffective disorder , schizophreniform disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , psychology , psychosis , medicine
— Of 301 first‐admitted patients with delusional psychoses, 94 met DSM‐III criteria of schizophrenia (S), 53 paranoid disorder (PD), 47 schizophreniform disorder (SFD), 35 schizoaffective disorder (SAD), 54 major affective disorder (AD), and 18 other disorders (OD). Retterstol selected the patients and personally interviewed them after 5–18 years, and later the author interviewed them after 22–39 (mean 30) years. At last follow‐up good functioning was noticed in 42%, moderate symptoms in 22%, severe defect in 20%, and very severe defect in 16%; 40% were still delusional. On average S patients did poorest, and OD patients slightly better. AD patients had superior outcome, while PD, SFD and SAD patients showed an intermediate position, but a little closer to AD than to S. However, heterogeneous course and outcome was noticed in all diagnostic groups.