Dmitry Ivenski
Maale Carmel Mental Health Center, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, IsraelPublications
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Research Article
Clinico-Epidemiological Comparison of Delusion Prominent and Hallucination Prominent Clinical Subgroups of Paranoid Schizophrenia Outpatients
Author(s): Anatoly Kreinin*, Mariia Ivenski, Dmitry Ivenski and Michael Kirby
Objective: The primary goal of this replication study was to confirm previous findings which demonstrated that there are epidemiological and clinical differences between the hallucinatory and delusional subgroups of patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. In contrast, and as an extension to the previous study, which evaluated hostel patients, the in the current study we evaluated outpatients with paranoid schizophrenia. In addition, we sought to verify our assertion that within the spectrum of schizophrenia disorders, among patients with paranoid schizophrenia there are at least two sufficiently homogeneous subgroups with distinctive clinical and epidemiological characteristics. Methods: Paranoid schizophrenia outpatients (n=100) meeting inclusion criteria and not violating exclusion criteria were randomly selected from a .. Read More»
DOI: 10.3371/CSRP. IMKA.021221