Symptom dimensions as predictors of clinical outcome, duration of hospitalization, and aggressive behaviours in acutely hospitalized patients with psychotic exacerbation

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 72-78

  Colasanti, Alessandro ^a,b   Paletta, Silvia ^a   Moliterno, Donatella ^a   Mazzocchi, Alessandra ^a   Mauri, Massimo Carlo ^a   Altamura, Alfredo Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activation; Acute psychosis; Aggression; Depression; Duration of hospitalization; Excitement; Factor analysis; Hyperactivity; Inpatients; Mania; Positive and negative symptoms; Schizophrenia; Symptom clusters; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCITEMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOSIS; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 79961127096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17450179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/17450179010060100072     Document Type: Article

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