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Psychotic Disorders

Research on psychotic disorders reported by K.D. Jakobsen et al

Published in Mental Health Business Week, December 15th, 2007

"Diagnostic stability and illness course of chronic non-organic psychoses are complex phenomena and only few risk factors or predictors are known that can be used reliably. This study investigates the diagnostic stability during the entire course of illness in patients with non-organic psychoses and attempts to identify non-psychopathological risk factors or predictors," researchers in Roskilde, Denmark report.

"100 patients with functional psychosis were initially characterised using the Operational Criteria Checklist for Psychotic Illness and Affective Illness (OPCRIT), medical records and health registers. To study the stability of diagnoses (i.e. shifts per time),...

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