Psychopathological and demographic characteristics of hallucinating patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: an analysis based on AMDP data.

Psychopathological and demographic characteristics of hallucinating patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder: an analysis based on AMDP data.
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2016 Oct 17;
Authors: Baethge C, Jänner M, Gaebel W, Malevani J
Abstract
Hallucinations are at the core of the diagnosis of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders, and many neuroscience studies focus on hallucinations. However, there is a lack of data on prevalence, subtyping, and clinical correlates of hallucinations as well as on the comparison of hallucinating schizophrenia versus hallucinating schizoaffective patients. Analysis of all psychopathology evaluations is based on the AMDP scale in a German psychiatric university hospital between 2007 and 2013 regarding patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (diagnosed according to ICD-10). Hallucinating versus non-hallucinating patients and age- and gender-matched hallucinating schizophrenic versus schizoaffective patients were compared with regard to key psychopathological and demographic characteristics. Relative to patients with schizoaffective disorder, patients with schizophrenia more often hallucinated at admission (36.6 vs. 16.2 %, RR: 2.3, p < 0.001). By subtype, frequency of hallucinations ranked auditory verbal > other auditory > visual > somatic/tactile > olfactory/gustatory. Hallucinating patients of either disorder were more often affe...

Source: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience - October 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci Source Type: research