Symptom Patterns in Hospitalized Adolescents A Comparison of 101 Schizophrenics with 101 Non-Schizophrenics

In an attempt to castlight on the complex problems of diagnosis in severely disturbed adolescents, 101 hospitalized adolescents diagnosed schizophrenic were retrospectively compared by chart review with a matched group given other diagnoses. Symptoms appearing in at least 30% of patients in each group were subjected to chi-squ are analysis. Four symptoms (auditory hallucina tions, in a ppropriate affective behavior, ideas of reference and phsycial attacks) were reliab ly related w ith schizophrenia; six symptoms (disobedience, stealing, narc otic abuse, fighting , man ifest anxiety and hyperkine sis) distinguished the non-schizop hre nice population. An additional eleven symptoms, though not occurring as freq 니ently as the above,appeared almost exclusively in schizo phrenics. The relevalnce of these finding s to the adolescent phase of development is explored.