[Clinical practice of the diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia of Chinese classification of mental diseases II (CCMD-2) in 1,394 inpatients].

Abstract

Re-diagnosed according to diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia of CCMD-2 was applied to 1,394 inpatients, who were diagnosed as schizophrenia when stayed the hospital in 1990. As a result, 98.5% of the cases conformed with four items diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia of CCMD-2; 98.7% of the cases conformed with the criteria of symptomatology; 99.4% of the cases conformed with the criteria for the course of illness; 99.8% of the cases conformed with the for the degree of seriousness; 100% of the cases conformed with the criteria of exclusion. Concordant rate in subtype: catatonic type 96.7%, hebephrenic type 92.2%, regressive type 90.9%, paranoid type 90.6%, residual type 50%, atypical type 50%. The must common symptoms were affective disorder (91%), disturbance of association (83.5%), delusion (62.2%). Frequency of other individual symptom were obviously difference, from 76.8% to 2.9%. We consider that diagnostic criteria of the schizophrenia of CCMD-2 is a appropriate for application in both clinical diagnosis and research work.