Article
Clusters in a cohort of untreated schizophrenia: prognostic importance, atypical cases and the familial versus sporadic distinction.
Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica - 1 Oct 1992
Jönsson S A, Jonsson H
Abstract excerpt
In search of features of prognostic importance, a cohort of patients admitted to a mental hospital in 1925 was investigated by means of multivariate clustering techniques. Using K-means cluster analysis or Q-factor analysis, a group containing cases with unfavourable prognosis was isolated. Other groups derived were prognostically heterogeneous. One group of patients, in early phases similar to good prognosis...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Cluster Analysis
- Cohort Studies
- Follow-Up Studies
- Hospitalization
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
- Psychometrics
