Adolescent Psychiatry has brief history both in its systemic study and also in its clinical practice. During past several years, it was impressed that there were increasing number and growing concerns in the field of adolesdent psychiatry in korea. In this paper, the author attempted to draw out the current state of adolescent neuropsychiatric practice in Chsun university hospital.
One hundred twenty five adolescent in-patients who admitted in the department of neuropsychiatry of Chosun university, during the period from Jan. 1st 1973, until December 31th 1975, were analyzed statistically in terms of age and sex, diagnogis, educational status, reason for discharge, duration in hospitalization and medication in diagnotic categories.
The results were as follows :
1) Sex distribution of study group was composed of 52% of male and 48% of female. and in diagnotic categories, as 2 whole peak age of all in-patients was between 18-25 year old(54.4% of the study group)
2) Schizophrenia was the most common initial diagnosis(41.6% of the study)
3) In diagnostic categories of these in-patients, as to the sex distribution was revealed that schizophrenia was highest rate in female patient and adolscent depression was highest rate in male patient among the cases of neuropsychiatric problems, in conversion hystery and hysterical psychosis, female patients had a higher rate than male patients.
4) The diagnosis of schizophrenia was most common at age of late adolescence.
5) Their educational level revealed that 67.5% of the patients were high school and 12.8% of the patients were college graduates.
6) As to the consideration G f medication in diagnostic categories, generally speaking, combined drug medication was performed in nearly two thirds of cases, but of case was single medication. Among the cases of schizophrenia with medicational therapy, single major tranquilizer was highest rate of 34.6%, especially among the cases of schizophrenia, major tranquilizer combined antidepressants was rate of 28.8% extremely rate.
We hope the obtained results will de helpful the further clinical research of adolescent psychopathology and disorders in Chun-Nam area.
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