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Drug Therapy , Intellectual Disability , Sex Offenses , Adolescent , Female , Humans , Intellectual Disability/complications , Sexual BehaviorABSTRACT
Although many scales to measure tardive dyskinesia have been developed, none has been widely accepted. The authors used the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) to evaluate a group of 293 inpatients who had been given a primary or secondary diagnosis of schizophrenia. They found a tardive dyskinesia prevalence of 30% using a criterion rating of 3 (moderate symptoms) or more on the AIMS. The prevalence figure declined as the criterion became more severe. They also found that women had a much higher prevalence of the disorder only when more severe symptoms were used as the criterion. They conclude that the AIMS is a reliable instrument for assessing tardive dyskinesia.
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Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced/diagnosis , Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced/psychology , Extremities , Facial Muscles , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Movement/drug effects , Neck Muscles , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , TongueSubject(s)
Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced/physiopathology , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
An examination of the severity of tardive dyskinesia in psychiatric inpatients using the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) indicates differing trends with age for each sex. Females show a significant linear increase with age, while males display a significant curvilinear relationship. Reliable differences between males and females are found only for the 70-79 and greater than or equal to 80 year age groups. The differences between the sexes cannot be accounted for by differences in length of current hospitalization or by current level of neuroleptic medication. Possible reasons for the results are discussed.
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Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced/epidemiology , Schizophrenia/complications , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced/complications , Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced/physiopathology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
27 psychogeriatric patients at Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center were tested by separate examiners on the WAIS Verbal Scale and the Geriatric Interpersonal Evaluation Scale to determine the relationship between these two tests. The sample was restricted to patients who were judged clinically to be "in contact," i.e., oriented as to time, place, and person. The correlation between the WAIS Verbal IQs and the geriatirc scale raw scores was .80; correlations with the individual verbal subscale scores ranged from .58 to .76. Relative advantages and disadvantages of the geriatric scale are discussed.
