Prognostic criteria in the case histories of hospitalized mental patients.

Direction of aggression as a prognostic variable in mental illness.

“…A previous paper described the selection of a sample of 486 patients from the population of hospitalized mental patients at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic [6]. There were 229 males and 257 females in the sample.…”

“…Taking its cue from the classical differentiation between paranoid and depressive disorders [3] and from studies by Albee [1] and Smith [9], the present study considers direction of aggression as a parameter of mental illness and its relation to prognosis. As part of a larger research project [6], this study also attempts to avoid one of the major weaknesses of earlier prognostic studies in that, as far as possible, other variables of known prognostic significance are held constant while direction of aggression is studied.…”

Prognosis in schizophrenia: The role of premorbid, social class, and demographic factors

“…Several investigators have reviewed the empirical literature dealing with prognosis in schizophrenia (Houston and Pepernick, 1958;Pascal, et al;Schoefield, Hathaway, Hastings, and Bell, 1954;and Zubin and Windle, 1954). These investigators agree on (I) the need for greater methodological sophistication in prognostic research in terms of operational definitions of predictor and criterion variables; (2) the utilization of appropriate time intervals and criteria for assessing outcome; and (3) clearly delineating the characteristics of the sample under study.…”

Statistische Untersuchungen an langj�hrig hospitalisierten Schizophrenen

“…Wir fanden jedoch in der Literatur bei Miinnern Mittelwerte des Erkrankungsbeginnes zwischen 25.1 und 28.0 Jahren und bei Frauen zwischen 27.0 und 34.5 Jahren [5,8,21,40,71,72] [11,20,25,29,53,57,74,78], w~ihrend andere Autoren keinen Einflufl des Lebensalters feststellten [6,19,37,60,69]. Ubereinstimmend wird der nach dem 40.…”

“…Ubereinstimmend wird der nach dem 40. Lebensjahr beginnenden Schizophrenie (Sp~itschizophrenie) eine besonders hohe Rate yon Dauerunterbringungen zugeschrieben [7,11,35,36] [11,29,37,42], andere stellten keinen Einfluff der Schulbildung auf die Prognose lest [11,60,69] …”