tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "The occurrence and nature of early signs of schizophrenia and psychotic mood disorders among former child and adolescent psychiatric patients followed into adulthood"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: The occurrence and nature of early signs of schizophrenia and psychotic mood disorders among former child and adolescent psychiatric patients followed into adulthood. | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health BioMed Central Research The occurrence and nature of early signs of schizophrenia and psychotic mood disorders among former child and adolescent psychiatric patients followed into adulthood Ulf Engqvist 1 2 and Per-Anders Rydelius1 Address Department of Woman and Child Health Karolinska Institutet Astrid Lindgren Children s Hospital Karolinska University Hospital SE-171 76 Stockholm Sweden and 2Department of Social Work Mid-Sweden University SE-831 25 Ostersund Sweden Email Ulf Engqvist - Per-Anders Rydelius - Corresponding author Open Access Published 17 October 2008 Received 4 June 2008 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2008 2 30 doi l753-2000-2-30 Accepted 17 October 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 30 2008 Engqvist and Rydelius licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background This investigation was designed to characterize psychotic disorders among patients originally treated as in- and outpatients by child and adolescent psychiatric services and subsequently followed-up into mid-adulthood. The age at the first onset on symptoms possible changes in diagnoses early signs noted prior to or upon admission to child and adolescent psychiatric care and possible differences between patients with early- and later-onset disorder were of particular interest. Methods The study population consisted of patients 285 in- and 1115 outpatients born between 1957 and 1976 and admitted to and treated by child and adolescent psychiatric care units in Jamtland County Sweden between 1975 and 1990. The status of their mental health was monitored until 2003 using official .