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Wesley C. Becker
Bio: Wesley C. Becker is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 58 citations.
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TL;DR: A rather consistent pattern of symptom variables as well as personality and social variables was found to be predictive of outcome; ‘Atypical’ symptoms were associated with good prognosis while longitudinal variables indicative of ‘high‐risk personality', or duration and severity of illness, were related to bad prognosis.
Abstract: Prediction of 5-8 year outcome from presenting symptoms and background data was attempted in a sample of 110 first-admitted schizophrenics. Correlations between outcome criteria and single predictors as well as factor analytically derived clusters of predictors were studied. A rather consistent pattern of symptom variables as well as personality and social variables was found to be predictive of outcome. 'Atypical' symptoms were associated with good prognosis while longitudinal variables indicative of 'high-risk personality', or duration and severity of illness, were related to bad prognosis. Overt psychotic symptoms usually gave no correlations with outcome. A discriminant analytical approach was also used to predict outcome from combinations of predictor variables. When all variables were used to predict a combined outcome score, a high accuracy was achieved.
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TL;DR: In view of Hoch’s explicit statement regarding the relationship of premorbid adjustment to outcome, it is surprising that relatively little attention was given to this issue.
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