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Stability and change in the clinical course of schizoaffective disorder
Anca Durla1, M Lenciu2, C Bredicean2
1Satu-Mare County Hospital, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Timisoara.
Unlabelled:
Schizoaffective disorder currently raises several questions, one of them being related to the stability of the clinical diagnosis over time. The aim of this study is to identify the clinical and evolutional particularities in the longitudinal course of schizoaffective disorder.
Material And Methods:
44 subjects with a current diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder have been assessed prospectively. Following parameters were analyzed: socio-demographic (age at onset, gender, educational, professional and marital status at onset) and clinical (total duration of evolution, diagnosis at onset, duration of the evolution until the switch to the schizoaffective disorder diagnosis).
Results And Discussion:
Socio-demographic parameters are similar to those in literature and the clinical assessment revealed that schizoaffective disorder is present as a diagnosis along with the longitudinal course of other types of psychosis.
Conclusions:
Schizoaffective disorder appears as a heterogeneous pathology in terms of the longitudinal course.
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