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1Rosenburg Psychiatric Hospital, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Studies in Great-Britain and the USA have established the prevalence of 'age disorientation', defined as a discrepancy between true and subjective age of five years or more, as approximately 25% in the population of long-stay patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. We examined all schizophrenic patients in long-stay wards of three mental hospitals and found a prevalence of 6% (95% CI: 0.9-10.6%). We have no definitive explanation for this finding. 'Age disorientation' may be the result of an interaction between a serious form of the illness and poor psychosocial treatment.
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