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A Study in Method

HUGH A. STORROW, M.D.

AMA Arch Gen Psychiatry 1960;2(2):142-146.

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This paper describes the derivation of a simple measure of therapeutic outcome which can be used routinely in a psychiatric unit. A number of workers have discussed the many problems which confront the investigator in this area.^1,3,10,11 Of the possible approaches to such measurement, rating methods are perhaps the most commonly used.^{4,5,8,9,12,14}

Method

Subjects.—The subjects were all adults treated between Oct. 1, 1957, and June 30, 1958, at either the inpatient or the outpatient unit of the Department of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles. All the necessary data were available for 45 such patients, and they constitute the sample. Seventy-six per cent of this group were women. Three-fourths of the subjects were between 20 and 39 years old, although the total age range was 18 through 55. In 49% the disorders were diagnosed as psychoneurotic disorders, in 29% as personality disorders,and in 4% as psychotic disorders. The remaining patients were distributed among the other diagnostic classifications. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Los Angeles

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 25, 1959.

Paper presented at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, April 27, 1959.

Norman Q. Brill, M.D., was of great help in the formulation of these scales.

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