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KMID : 0378019750180020203
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New Medical Journal
1975 Volume.18 No. 2 p.203 ~ p.212
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A Clinical Studies on Psychiatric Disorders of Adolescence
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郭東日/Kwak, Dong Il
洪聖均/李祥淵/Hong, Sung Kyu/Lee, Sang Yeon
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Abstract
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This study is intended to investigate the various factors of three hundred five adolescents of outpatients who visited the department of neuropsychiatry, Woo Sok Hospital, Korea University during the period from Jan. 1970 to Dec. 1972.
The result were as follows:
1. As to age and sex distribution, the most frequent age group was 18 year old patients (18.0% of the study group). The male patient was highly distributed at the age of 18 and 20, and the female patient was highly distributed at the age of 16.
2. As to the diagnostic categories according to age groups, it was revealed that neuroses was the most common at the age of 12, 13, 16, 19 and 20, and schizophrenia was the most common at the age of 14. 15, 17 and 18. As a whole, male patient had a higher rate than female patient in schizophrenics and female patient had a higher rate than male patient in neurotics. And it was revealed that neuroses was the highest rate of 36. 1%, and schizophreia(35.7%), psychophysiologic disorders(12.5%), affective psychoses(9.8%) were the higher rate in this order(305 of the study group).
3. As to yearly diagnostic distribution, it was the author´s impression that the psychiatric disorders of adolescence was on the increase in Seoul area.
4. As to the socio-economic status according to diagnostic categories, the middle upper classes tend to
have relatively more affective psychoses or personality disorder and the middle lowers classes tend to have neuroses or schizophrenia. As a whole,´ the most patients came from the middle lower classes families.
5. As to the number of previous psychiatric consultation, the cases of none-previous psychiatric consultation were 80.3%.
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