Validity - Schizophrenia
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- Created on: 26-02-13 17:57
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- Psychiatric comorbidities are common among patients with schizophrenia and create difficulties in diagnosis of schizophrenia
- Klosterkotter et al - positive symptoms more useful for diagnosis than negative symptoms
- Prognosis - people diagnosed as schizophrenic rarely share the same symptoms,nor the same outcomes
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- Comorbidity and medical complications - Weber et al. found evidence of many comorbid non psychiatric diagnoses among patients with schizophrenia, which affects prognosis
- Comorbidity and suicide risk - persons with schizophrenia at risk for suicide, with comorbid depression the major cause for suicidal behaviour
- Ethnicity and misdiagnosis - rates of schizophrenia among African-Caribbeans much higher than white populations, which in part may be a product of misdiagnosis
- Symptoms - schizophrenic symptoms also found in many other disorders, including depression and DID
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