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Table 4 Significant findings between co-variables (upper part) and predictors (lower part) of diagnostic stability and the stability measures (panel A) and the number-of-hospitalisations (panel B). P-values are shown and the corresponding R2-values given in parentheses

From: Diagnostic stability among chronic patients with functional psychoses: an epidemiological and clinical study

 

Panel A

Panel B

Putative co-variables of diagnostic stability●◆

Number-of-diagnostic-shifts●

Number-of-spectrum-shifts●

Diagnostic-complexity●

Spectrum-complexity●

Number-of-hospitalisations◆

Civil status, i.e. ever married

    

0,015

Global Assessments of Functioning (GAF)▲

  

0,069 (0,519)

  

Somatic co-morbidity (ever present)

0,029 (0,528)

0,049 (0,309)

  

0,001

Putative predictors of diagnostic stability ●◆

     

Age of first admission

    

0,001

Family history of psychiatric disease

0,061 (0,522)

    

First diagnosis ICD-10 schizophrenia

    

0,023

Sct. Louis Criteria for Schizophrenia▲▲

   

0,09 (0,246)

 
  1. ●Bi-variant analyses using the four stability measures as dependent variables and numbers-of-hospitalisations in combination with each of the putative co-variables or predictors of diagnostic stability as independent variables.
  2. ◆Multiple regression with backward elimination using numbers-of-hospitalisations as the dependent variable and all the other co-variables and putative predictors as independent variables.
  3. ▲Endicott et al, 1976.
  4. ▲▲ Feighner et al, 1972.
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BMC Psychiatry

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